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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
I don't understand how this is supposed to help. If the chassis is intended to sit on the 2x4 frame, the bottom plane of the robot's wheels will be well below the raised platform on which the tote is sitting. Unless I'm missing something basic about how you are expecting this to work, you've taken the problem of the robot being higher than the floor and turned it the other direction. Am I simply failing to see what it's meant to do?

But even if I am missing something basic, robot frames are not all at the same height off the ground. I'm afraid that this "solution" would not work for a large fraction of the robots I have seen this year.
This is made to work with a kit chassis build. Because of the lip the elevator can only go so low. Again I reiterate if someone has a chassis that is not a kit of parts one I'm sure they are an experienced team who already has safety procedures in place. I could spend all day building different blocks for different robots but I had to make one that worked with our bot and go from there. It's a step in the right direction and I encourage others to develop the idea better (I'm an electrical guy not a builder).
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