Update #3

[JohnBoucher]

Update #3 is out. Update #3

Pipe is now 1.74"

[thefro526]

Doesn't look too ground breaking. The exact method for calculating servo power is really nice, and so are the clarifications for tape and the pole material.

Oh, and servos on the mini-bot are pretty nifty too.

[Justin Montois]

I thought the wording change on <R92> C. No more then one 12V rechargeable...

It used to say exactly. Are some teams not using a battery?

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by 340x4xLife

I thought the wording change on <R92> C. No more then one 12V rechargeable...

It used to say exactly. Are some teams not using a battery?

Very good question... especially with <G19> pretty much forbidding anything but the battery from providing the energy to move up the pole.

[Racer26]

I smell more changes to MINIBOT rules on the horizon.

Also: Are the Tetrix servos of any added value to providing the MINIBOT with upward motion, supplementing the Tetrix motors?

EDIT: Furthermore: YAY! Slip Rings! Teams can finally deal with wires on rotating masses in ways they should have been able to 10+ years ago.

[Ether]

Originally Posted by 1075guy

YAY! Slip Rings! Teams can finally deal with wires on rotating masses in ways they should have been able to 10+ years ago.

Here come the Unicorns!

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Ether

Here come the Unicorns!

Slip rings have been legal in various past years.

[Alan Anderson]

Slip rings are no longer disparaged.

[KrazyCarl92]

So we can use cylinders and tanks other than those included in the KOP...

[wilsonmw04]

I wonder how one would control a servo without a NXT and FTC servo controller? Can you control them with simple switches like you would a motor?

[Stephen of REX]

Hmmm, so the FTC lego power switch isn't allowed? We were using that to activate the minibot motors...

Edit: oh wait it is a tetrix part, phew. Its just mounted on lego parts.

[PAR_WIG1350]

Just a few notes, Despite the change to say no more than one battery, <G19> as amended in update one still stands.

Also, despite the change to <G07>, <G06> and <G34> are still in effect and their combined effect limits the implications, but more importantly, the interaction of the changed <G07> and the unchanged <G10> when added to the unchanged <G06> and <G34>, that which is on the field before the match remains completely unchanged from the original rules, all that this change does is it removes the apparent prohibition of the feeders feeding game pieces onto the field.

Additionally, with the addition of slip rings as an allowable component. It would seem like "Unicorn Drive" is not as impossible as it once was.

EDIT: I was unable to post for a while due to technical issues. Unfortunately, that has made this post redundant since almost every idea has already been mentioned.

[gbrettmiller]

<G13> is still in effect, prohibiting TEAM members from touching GAME PIECES during AUTONOMOUS, meaning they cannot put the LOGO PIECES into play until TELEOPS begins.

[Nemisis]

Originally Posted by KrazyCarl92

So we can use cylinders and tanks other than those included in the KOP...

So we can indeed use as many air supply tanks as we want/need without limit?

[buildmaster5000]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

Slip rings are no longer disparaged.

Please pardon my terrible vocabulary, but even after a google search I am still confused by what you mean by this . Are they now leagal??