Thread: will your team use bumpers this year?
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Unread 30-01-2004, 15:31
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Re: will your team use bumpers this year?
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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
E. your Robot Controller
We did that last year in testing (by accident of course). We didn't realize that the radio cable plug was sticking out in front of the robot a little and we drive right into a pole right on that plug. (Out of a 36" wide frame, going into a 4" diameter round pole, what are the chances you'd hit the 1.5" wide plug sticking out!?!?) Anyway, it broke off our radio port kind of. It still worked but we were skeptical. Luckily my brother is an electronics expert and he was able to open it up and install a new port.
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