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Re: Can you "flip" your robot to give you a 60" width?

I'm going to go ahead and have you file these TPS reports... errr... I ment go ahead and guess that one of two situations will occur:

Situation A:
Quote:
you will need to build two sets of bumpers:
1)on the 28"X38" base.
2)on the "real" base of your robot in the playing configuration.
Or situation B:
My logic tells me you only need to place standard bumpers for each drive base, so if the robot can move in two different position you would need a standard bumper for each position, but not for positions where the robot can not move.
you run the risk that if your mechanism fails and you can't flip, and you don't have bumpers, other robots might hit you.




this is just my logic and not an official FIRST answer!

This is definitely something for the Q&A, just so we know how they want us to do this exactly.... (us=FIRSTers... my team isn't going for this design since we want the most height for the overpass hurdeling...)


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