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Originally posted by Bill Gold
Getting back to robots tipping and being flipped... It's either a design flaw on your partner's part (high CG) or something else which could have been avoided. What I'm trying to say (with less than 12 hours of sleep over 3 days) is that you ought to concern yourself with convincing your own team to not be careless in your design or driving so that you don't tip over. You can't do anything about the other robots. There's no magic wand you can wave to make your partner be a better robot or a more complimentary robot. Roll with the punches life (and FIRST) throws at you. If you don't, you'll never be happy. Don't make life so rigid and serious, you'll never make it out alive.
There's my more than half asleep $0.02
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Totally agreed Bill. as anyone who watched us at SVR can tell you, we had severe flipping issues. As they can also tell you, we are about 12" high, with most weight under 9". The problem is our lack of weight. After removing all of our useless stuff, we were sitting at 75ish lbs, way too light. We didnt do anything to remedy the situation until the end of the day, because we thought it was some freak situation, but by that time, it was too late, and we were in 45th place. We were going to add a Lead brick this morning, but I guess that never found its way to our pits. Most of it was driver error. You cannot continue to drive forward when being tipped, you also cannot sit there and let yourself be tipped by a wedgebot. Oh well...the robot sucked, but who cares? I still had a ton of fun.
Cory