When driving the robot around at school, especially on carpet, you may want to hang a short length of chain from the chassis to drag on the floor. Don't use #35 roller chain, use something like you would use on a swingset
I don't know if this will be allowed at the competitions, but hope that it will be.
This will help prevent the chassis from building up a charge as the wheels spin on the carpet.
The use of drag chains is standard practice in industry on carts used to move static sensitive items, since the rubber wheels on a metal cart will do the same thing when it is being moved around.
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