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Re: Angled Bumpers

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Originally Posted by pmattin5459 View Post
Solution to avoid all of this: use an intake that extends beyond your frame perimeter and has mecanum wheels or some other way to center balls that are being pulled in.
...and give up 3 to 4" of hopper size because you have to pull the frame perimeter back to fit in the maximum volume. That is, unless you do an expanding hopper design like Big Bad Bob, but now you have a pretty critical part of the robot sticking out that you can't retract away from a collision - so it's a foul and damage risk.
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