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Re: New size/bumper rules that every team should know

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New this year,the top of the bumpers is 7" this year (think bumpers end up 5.5-6.5" tall with fabric. My memory says last year the bumper zone was 5-12" off the ground.
Yes, last year's was the highest bumper zone since our rookie year (2012), and this year is the lowest since then. Fortunately, there are no scoring platforms or defenses or anything but flat carpet to drive over.
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Re: New size/bumper rules that every team should know

A frame perimeter of 23" x 25" seems tiny! Any ideas of how to make the most of vertical space?
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Re: New size/bumper rules that every team should know

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A frame perimeter of 23" x 25" seems tiny! Any ideas of how to make the most of vertical space?
We kept to a 24" x 26" perimeter last season while staying short enough for the low bar, so it is doable. We did strictly defenses but our arm for defense manipulation cut through 13" of our 26" frame, and there was room for a ball manipulator we were working to try to add at our regional.

Mounting all the large electronics vertically and grouping by power and control sections is how we freed up most of our space. RoboRio, radio, signal light, and VRM went on one side of the bot, battery, PDP, and main breaker went on the other. All were mounted on vertical boards from the chassis bottom to our top frame rails, so 7"-8" of space.
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