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Unread 03-03-2003, 20:45
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But, I haven't read the rules all to thorughly, and I dont recall this happening before. Is it legal to construct 2 totally different robots and use both at the same competition?
Technically, we didn't build two entirely different robots. We like to think of it as a 'modular' robot. Some teams have modular arms, we just have modular drive bases. As we have them built now, we would more than likely, not use both at one competition, because we didn't have the time to implement total effeciancy in our modular approach. Andy Baker said in another post that it would take 2-4 hrs to swap all of the components neccessary to make it legal (motors, controller, rotating beacon, etc.) However, if we did take the time to do all of that, it would be perfectly legal.
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