[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by EricH

Diagnostic lights.
Ethernet ports.
USB ports.

Sometimes, you just gotta download that one patch of code in queue....*

There are a couple of other reasons not to do inverted, though. I think the most basic is: There's often random pieces of metal on the field, either as structure or as robot droppings. Last thing you want is one of those connecting pins or sides of power. And according to Murphy's Law... well, let's just go with insulating every connection on the robot thoroughly as well as covering all open ports and leave it at that. Also see "dirt in port".


*You THINK you gotta, but you DON'T. Programmers can be persuasive.

Those seem like great reasons to be able to easily move the robot to a position where the theoretical electronics on the bottom of the robot are easily accessible, but not reasons to be transporting it in that configuration.