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Re: pic: Spectrum 3847 - 2017 CAD Model: Gamma Ray
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Originally Posted by lukekaiser
Agreed
Teams need to make sure they read all rules pertaining to robot size carefully. I would hate to see a robot this well designed get to a competition and then not pass inspection.
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I'm equally worried about teams building drive base/bumper assemblies to the maximum allowed dimension, and then regretting this decision when they realize all the cool things they could have achieved with a smaller base that enabled over-the-bumper dropdowns. In past years, iterating in new systems was just a matter of finding the space and weight, this year there are going to be a lot of teams boxed out of improving their robots and adding features like Spectrum has because they assumed bigger=better early in the process.
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