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Re: Low bar or not

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Originally Posted by anishde View Post
Our team decided to combine the best of both worlds, and create a robot that fits under the low bar, but unfolds upward to shoot and climb. So far, our clearance beneath the low bar is less than an inch, which is very problematic. It doesn't look like we're going to scrap the low design, for the simple sake of going underneath the low bar, but might have to alter some other mechanisms to gain that ability.

Are you an inch under 16, or an inch under 14? The low bar is located at the neutral zone end of the defense, which means that you will need to be significantly shorter than 16 inches on your leading edge as you pass under hte low bar.

(I use the term leading because we have tried to eschew use of front and back for our robot. It will cross different defenses in different directions. We have a boulder launch that projects the boulder at the high goal from the opposite end of the pickup. Our robot ends are "pickup" and "launch" rather than "front" and "back".
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