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Re: Circular/cornerless robot - Bumper free or fully bumpered?
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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol
Going back to a non-circular robot, if one of your edges between corners is less than 8", you're out of luck. You can't protect 8" on either side of a corner of the adjacent edge is < 8".
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Building on that -- since the perimeter cannot exceed 112", a polygonal frame perimeter cannot have more that 112/8 = 14 sides. So a frame perimeter with, say, one million sides would be illegal -- and indistinguishable from a circle. Hmm, maybe the circular frame perimeter is illegal after all?
  
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Here's some food for thought: Does your FRC program need the students, or do the students need your FRC program? - sanddrag [more] 
05-01-2013, 19:47
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