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

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Originally Posted by Leav View Post
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.
Your logic agrees with what I see in the manual.

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Originally Posted by <R08>
...STANDARD BUMPERS must remain within the BUMPER ZONE when the ROBOT is resting on the floor in PLAYING CONFIGURATION.
A "flop-bot" isn't automatically in PLAYING CONFIGURATION before it flops. Section 8.2 DEFINITIONS of the manual has this to say:

"PLAYING CONFIGURATION - The physical configuration and orientation of the ROBOT while playing the game (i.e. after the MATCH has started, and the ROBOT has deployed mechanisms, moved away from the starting location, and/or interacted with the field, GAME PIECES, or other ROBOTS). This configuration is dynamic, and may change multiple times during the course of a single MATCH."