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Re: FRC T-bone-ing and Hexagonal drive

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Originally Posted by jijiglobe View Post
One solution to the T-boning problem that is much simpler to implement is to make your bumpers out of different types of fabric. Many teams use a high friction cloth (such as emery cloth) for their front and back bumpers so that they can T-bone other teams, while using low friction cloth (such as sail cloth) for their side bumpers. so that other teams have difficulty T-boning them.
That sounds like such a dirty way to play and I love it. Kinda like pine-tarring in baseball, but for robots.
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