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Re: Bending the Bumpers

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Originally Posted by BeyondRamo View Post
Currently our team has a circular robot. At this point we have two ideas of how to attach the bumpers: 1) simply bending the 3/4" plywood into circular arcs which we will fasten to the robot OR 2) taking circular arcs out of the plywood and then stacking them up to get to 5", although 3/4 does not not go evenly into 5, we are still wondering if they would let that little offset go or not. If anyone has any other suggestions of as to how we can even create circular bumpers please let us know.
some of the past robots that were circular (don't remember the specific #'s) just did about 8 or so pieces of bumpers. it looked cool and covered their circle robot. hope that helps.
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