[EricH]

Originally Posted by Mr.G

Installing bumpers on a robot that are predefined and have specific requirements involve NO engineering. It is completely and absolutely construction. The bumpers we use in FIRST are about as far from engineering as you can get, the engineering was already done by FIRST's GDC. If I thought that was what engineering was about I wouldn't have become an engineer. Cheers.

I don't want to say that because of the spirit of FIRST, but I am ready for the responses.

It's not the bumpers that are being engineered. Not at all! They are one of the constraints that we have to design around. You have to engineer your robot to:

• support the bumpers in the zone,
• fit in the 80" with the bumpers on, and
• have the bumpers easy to remove with whatever mounting system is used.

All of which require engineering and creativity to do.