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Re: How is 54" size limit being inspected?

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How do you handle situations when the 54" cylinder isn't perpendicular to the floor?
It has to be perpendicular to the floor when you're not in contact with the pyramid, so problem solved. It's also a lot harder to have a robot that doesn't fit in a cylinder when climbing, since there are infinite orientations for the cylinder to be and it only needs to fit in one to be legal.
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Re: How is 54" size limit being inspected?

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Unless they're not in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder....
Ok, two points projected onto the ground plane then.
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Re: How is 54" size limit being inspected?

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It has to be perpendicular to the floor when you're not in contact with the pyramid, so problem solved. It's also a lot harder to have a robot that doesn't fit in a cylinder when climbing, since there are infinite orientations for the cylinder to be and it only needs to fit in one to be legal.
This doesn't solve the problem if the part of the robot that goes outside of a perpendicular cylinder only extends when the bot touches the pyramid. You still have to find that one cylinder that fits. What I'm asking is how a circle on the floor helps with this? Do you have the kids hold the robot at various angles until you either find one or give up?

I inspected a bot at GKC where we used carpenter's squares and long pieces of square aluminium stock as a guide for my tape measure. We were able to find a cylinder that fit. If the team ever extends their climbing appendage while not touching the pyramid they'll violate the rule; no way around it. This was time-consuming and tedious; I would like to think there's a better way.
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