Thread: Question about bumbers and stuff about our chassis
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Re: Question about bumbers and stuff about our chassis
Cow Bell Solo, depending on where you put the pause in reading <R08> J, after "Corners" or after "joints" (GDC, a comma would have been nice), you may not be able to have the filler projection past the lower right corner of the robot as you show in your sketch. J can be read to conclude that such fillers can only be used to fill the space between bumper segments. If you remove the questionable filler projection I think you would be legal with respect to perimeter bumper protection. Both sides of the robot relative to the corner are protected by bumpers and you also meet the following: (from <r08>) ... If implemented as intended, a ROBOT that is driven into a vertical wall in any normal PLAYING CONFIGURATION will always have the BUMPER be the first thing to contact the wall." This sentence is the one most comprehensive and unambiguous metric the game manual includes regarding required scope of robot perimeter bumper protection. In my humble opinion many of the discussions which do not include this item seem to be doing a lot of tail chasing and are doing more to confuse the issue than clarify it.