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Re: Whats the Best way to do Bumpers?
This past year we used the flip method to change our bumpers which worked out pretty awesomely. Luckily we had a talented seamstress on the team that made the bumper covers for us that worked excellently all season.
As for mounting them, we used L brackets to hug the 1" box tubing that ran around the frame perimeter of our robot. We then just dropped a pin through the L brackets and the box beam. Took ~1 minute to remove all the bumpers from the robot.
Another cool thing we did in 2009 was use the same clips that hold brooms to a wall to hold the front bumpers to our robot. This was part of the rule that required 6" of bumper to be backed by a solid frame member. Because our robot had a wide intake in the front we wanted to minimize the bumper/frame member required to do this. Below is what we ended up with. It worked out great, we never had a bumper fall off and they were literally snap on and snap off.
-Brando
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-2005 New Jersey Regional Chairman's Award Winners
-2013 MORT Hall of Fame Inductee
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2007 Boston Regional Winners
2008 & 2009 Boston Regional Driving Tomorrow's Technology Award
2010 Boston Regional Creativity Award
2011 Bayou Regional Finalists, Innovation in Control Award, Boston Regional Finalists, Industrial Design Award
2012 New York City Regional Winners, Boston Regional Finalists, IRI Mentor of the Year
2013 Orlando Regional Finalists, Industrial Design Award, Boston Regional Winners, Pine Tree Regional Finalists
2014 Rhode Island District Winners, Excellence in Engineering Award, Northeastern University District Winners, Industrial Design Award, Pine Tree District Chairman's Award, Pine Tree District Winners
2015 South Florida Regional Chairman's Award, NU District Winners, NEDCMP Industrial Design Award, Hopper Division Finalists, Hopper/Newton Gracious Professionalism Award
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