[EricH]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

What if all the standard was would be a 12x12x12, and each minibot had to include its own deployment mechanism?

As long as the deployment mechanism was contained in the 12" cube, that'd be fine.

It's when the deployment mechanism goes outside, or when the robot's docking area isn't where the deployment mechanism needs to be to deploy right that there's a problem.

W/R/T stopping the minibot from running, I was thinking a switch at the pole as well. Activate it, and the minibot turns on. Biggest problem is the hostbots that expect the minibot to move out on its own onto the base--but another switch with a "standardish" mounting area set and a servo on the robot to activate it would probably work.