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Dual Robots
Happy new year and, more importantly, new FIRST comp season!
My team and I have been pouring over the game for the past 48 hours or so and have reached a point where we need to ask some more experienced FIRSTers.
We have a plan to build 1 robot that can do most of the stuff on the game except hurdling. Only problem is the size and weight would make it one of the slower machines on the field.
To solve this problem, we are planning in a part that can be removed entirely from the robot and would serve as essentially a mini bot, smaller, faster, and more agile than most on the field. All modifications/ removals would happen in the pit, with nothing being left on the field.
The question is whether or not we are allowed to do this? Leave a significant portion of our bot behind in the pit for a chance to score more laps than any others out there.
Any thoughts/ opinions would be greatly helpful.
Chris McKenzie
2186
P.S. This would only be done in a match when we figure the largest number of points from both sides will be scored in laps etc...
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Working on Robotic Eagles group(PM for info)
Stephen Colbert-"Please tell me this leads to robot
battles."
Dean Kamen-"It does lead to kids building robots, and they do compete in the sport but we also teach the kids gracious proffesionalism, so while the robots are competing, they do it in a very, very gracious way."
Darn, I got into this for the battles! 
Last edited by ChrisMcK2186 : 07-01-2008 at 20:32.
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