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Re: 1519 - One Dual-Config Robot or Two Robots?

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Originally Posted by Matt H. View Post
This scenario is illegal because the two "mechanisms" together must make the weight limit--which is the limiting factor preventing teams from shipping 1000 robots and what made this such a design challenge for 1519. If your above scenario the sum of the masses of the two robots is well about 120lbs making it illegal. The two robots 1519 had weight 120lbs together.

I agree that squirrel's idea that we know what a robot looks like is flawed--such an approach encourages making the same first robot continuously rather than branching out and changing with time. I'm sure there is nothing innovative about every team building a 6wheel drive rectangular robot which is what your description would create a robot.
This is not correct according to my reading of the rules. Provided that you are reinspected after every time you make the modification only the weight of the parts you plan to use in the current configuration would count. For example when 1519 modified their robot by adding 30 lbs. of ballast did they weigh Fezzix + ballast + Speed Racer?? Of course not, they no longer planned on using Speed Racer so it was no longer weighed with the robot.
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