130lbs to 140lbs.

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Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 3/1/2000 6:13 PM MST


In Reply to: Another reason to stay below 130 lbs. posted by Thomas A. Frank on 3/1/2000 1:50 PM MST:



On a related topic, Don't you think that they could have scaled this game without significant disadvantage?

I suppose we have a factor of about 4/5.

Using this scale factor, the robot could have shrunk to 4 ft high by about 2 1/2 deep by about 2 feet wide.

The 30 inch bar becomes a 2 ft bar.

The 6 foot goal & bar become about a 5 foot bar & goal.

The ramp becomes 10 inches rather than 12.

These are not very big compromises.

But the effect would have been robots that you can cart around in a van more easily, a field that perhaps more teams could have actually built, and finally, Standard PLAYGROUND BALLS rather than the eggs we have to put up with.

Ah well, a guy can dream can't he?

Joe J.