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Originally Posted by Russ Beavis
Petrified plywood?  |
My rookie parsing of the Bumper rules and Q&A is that anything inside the bumper perimeter that you can call a "bumper attachment bracket" that is permanently attached to the bumper is fair game. An 8 lb bumper perimeter with 10 lbs of bolts to hold it on, a plywood subfloor across your whole robot that bolts upward to the frame, etc.
This could have been designed into the frame to provide a lot of frame strength, for those teams with 3lb frames.
10 lbs of bolts, where each bolt costs less than $1 would not count against the cost budget too.
Per recent Q&A, bumpers need to meet $3500 budget rule and shipdate rule.