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Unread 09-01-2011, 15:59
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Re: Minibot Standardization (FRC 2011: Logomotion)

I feel there has been some discussion on standardizing the minibots. Some people, donrotolo and darist, have expressed a desire for somebody to take the initiative in coming up with an open standard minibot. We want everyone to have freedom within the one foot cube, but we want to be able to expect some common way to mount the minibot to the host bot in a way it can be delivered on a pole.

Building on the comments by caffel I believe these could be the four criteria we need to keep in mind

1) Box/envelope/open top

2) Delivery platform (minibot doesn’t fall out of host bot)

3) Delivery (because currently it appears that our robot and minibot will be in contact with the pole the max hight of deployment is 18in)

4) Attach/ launch

We at 1712 would like to propose the acronym for the standardization, CLIMBS (Committee Leading the Initiative for MiniBot Standardization). Post fast we only have 10 seconds to the top