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Originally Posted by Bharat Nain
Again, they confused us a little bit by saying "The intent of this rule is that you must be in the loading zone" They did not say it should be in the original 28x38 dimensions. if they had the word "touching" italicized or bolded or something it would've been much more clear to us that we had to build something that had to be TOUCHING. When they said it should be in the 28x30 box and touching, many many many many teams must have spent hours or days figuring out how to modify their drive train to fit that. I know we did.
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As usual the rules changed. FIRST probably looked at the the rule & thought this was an easy fix to say in the 28x38 dimension & touching. Touching makes sense, it is absolute, binary, you are or your not. There is no real grey area, the rule that has the most bearing on our team is the 28x38 footprint. That rule came 6 days before ship. 6 days! We had already designed & built a robot the falls from the 28x38 to 38x60. There is no redesigning possible at that point. We figured they would catch their wording and make one last change. I am confident that they still will. FIRST is a terrific program, run by normal people like Dave Lavery and Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers...Maybe maybe not normal but very much like you and I.