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Originally Posted by BrendanB
NICE! Just out of curiosity, what type of bumper fabric is that? It looks sort of like a semi plastic fabric type stuff.
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The bumper fabric is the basic 1000-denier cordura from Seattle Fabrics that lots of teams use. It's plastic looking and shiny because we coated it with "Mod-page," a decoupage coating that we used so the numbers wouldn't peel up at the edges.
I also love this picture - it's a great view of the inner workings of the bot. You can see the kicker, the transmissions and 8-wheel drive train, the winch motor and transmissions, the safety-stripe roll bars.
The beyond-90 degree wobble-back is a big thrill and a huge crowd-pleaser. Since the first few Jersey matches, huberje has become better at going over the bump flat and fast, so we don't show the wobble much any more. It showed up a little when he was trying to figure out how to park on the hump in Virginia practice matches (also a crowd pleaser).