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Re: Was the Low Bar worth it?

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Originally Posted by Anupam Goli View Post
Not worth. We overestimated our knowledge and design capability. If I were to redo this season, I'd have us go tall.
We ultimately decided that it was possible for us to accomplish all of our goals while still designing a robot that was under 14" tall. I think going high would've made a lot of the design easier, but one of our goals was to be able to solo-breach, so we would've been forced to design a sally port/drawbridge mechanism. Looking back, I think that going low may not have been worth it, but there are some distinct advantages, like having low CG that Chris mentioned, that made it better.
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