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Re: MERGED: Universal Hanging System/Standardized Partner Suspension

I do not think its a good idea to put the par on top of the robot, though you could raise the other robot (the one that is suspended off of your robot) higher, you would restrict the designs of many teams since, unless they come up with a way to raise and lock it into place, their robots will be too tall to fit in the tunnel. But we can make it so that the bar is at 18 inches, so the robot can fit through the tunnel, but I guarantee you if we do that someone will place their vital components near that bar (electronics, $1000 CRIO, etc) and which could get ripped out by another robot.

I just feel, in this case where we want to make wide sweeping standards, its a good idea to make it simple, so even a rookie team can install it w. out quams. So I think we should go back to hanging it at certain length from the ground (im thinking 5 inches) so it can act as a guard and the robot can use the tunnel as per their design. As our dear old friend Murphy says, "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." So lets keep it simple, since I don't want to see robots falling from 7 feet.
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