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Re: Team 5550 - Fall Project

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Originally Posted by Ari423 View Post
Looks good. Two suggestions though:

1. It looks like the wheels are protruding outside of the frame perimeter (assuming there would not be an additional superstructure to increase the frame perimeter). According to 2016 rules, that would be an illegal starting configuration.
The allowable "frame perimeter" is based on the size of the entire robot, think of it as a box of a certain size that the robot needs to fit into. It is not dependent on the actual size of the frame/chassis/drivetrain.

If you apply that logic you are basically ruling all cantilevered wheel drivetrains ie WCD illegal( excluding bumper mounts)

This is a fun, valuable learning project rather then something that will be ever used in a competition.

This is a terrible style of drivetrain to use in any season( even in 2015 were it is unnecessary) so I don't believe they are intending for it to be legal.
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