DiscoBots Omni Drive over Bump

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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Have you considered adding the bumpers to the bot yet? If those are 8" omnis, it looks to me as if the frame member is 12 or 13 inches off the ground. The bottom of your bumper will be no more than 11". Bottoming out?

And a more general question which should be of interest for all teams - what will keep a ball from rolling more than 3" under the frame in this kind of setup?

If they are 8" omnis and the bumpers extend down about an inch it would still leave you with about 4" at the lowest point while crossing the bump, but you still would want to add a type of guard to prevent the ball from rolling under the robot. Some ideas might be either a chain that will flex when you go over the bump or a piece of pvc pipe.