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Re: Team 5720 Bumper help

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Originally Posted by mjv5720 View Post
With the arm lifters we didn't count it as our frame perimeter. We were planning on having the bumpers corner around the front wheels and leave a gap for the Boulder. Thinking about it now we need to alter or extend our arm system since it wouldn't work with our bumper idea. We didn't include the arm lifters in our interpretation of the frame perimeter. The fp just went around the treads and front wheels. I can try to get something from paint though.
Our build team has some ideas on how to make supports for the bumpers but I don't know them off hand since I'm a programmer.
Yeah... That design idea as some problems.

I think your best bet would be to alter the arms to arch over the bumpers and fit inside the frame perimeter when in starting configuration.
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