Beware of R16 your robot design may be too big.

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by ay2b

Please take a look at the FIRST Q&A, especially this thread: http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=8159

There is no "80 inch cylinder" rule. That was just an EXAMPLE of one shape that will pass.

The rule can be rephrased as this: if you were to project all points of the robot onto the ground (i.e. a horizontal plane), would there exist any two points which are more than 80 inches apart? If the answer is yes, then the robot is too big.

This is the most clear way I have heard it stated.... Any two points more than 80" apart? if so, fail (restating that was more for my own understanding than anything).