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Wide vs. Tall

View Poll Results: Are you planning on building a tall or wide robot?
Tall	55	28.50%
Wide	138	71.50%
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10-01-2017, 13:35

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Re: Wide vs. Tall

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Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

dont need to subtract from the height but yes they are equivalent.

Actually you do:

a) drive train / electrical has to go somewhere, so including them would be inaccurate

b) each vertical inch for the wide base robot nets more volume than the tall robot, so the 6 inches hurts the short robot more.

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