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Originally Posted by MrHero
The floor material is hardly thin, flexible, or breakable.
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I found the material spec'd to be thin flexible and breakable, while the sheets are heavy the material is not that robust, as we've already had a corner break off that got hit sideways from a drifting bot. This material would also not take kindly to roll form as it would most likely fracture.
just my experience with this FRP
plus suction is commonly used in industry to manipulate large sheets of material.
I envision if it was allowed a team with enough development could produce significant downforce.
also Bill says dont do this
3) Don’t spend time attempting to develop a vacuum car system like Jim Hall’s sucker Chaparral car. Even a slight suction over the base of the robot will damage the field surface and you don’t want to do that (See the 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition Manual
straight from bills blog