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Tape Measures
This whole issue of Tape measures, mini-segs, etc has been an unfortunate one. I know that our team considered adding a mini-robot during our original design, but abandoned it because it appeared that almost any design that we could have come up with would be potentially illegal so rather than 'push' the rules we just abandoned the idea. After the FIRST ruling that almost any mini-robot was legal we considered adding a Tape measure for our competition at St. Louis but again decided not to, one reason was that we really didn't have time to design and test a new component at St. Louis and also our robot somehow managed to gain a pound between KSC and St. Louis which put us at the 130 lb. limit (I hope that it doesn't gain another lb between St. Louis and Disney !). We may consider adding one at Disney (if we can lose a pound) but I doubt it, it is just too late in the game for us to start changing strategy.
Don Taylor
M-n-M Team 343
Last edited by Don Taylor : 22-04-2002 at 23:31.
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