pic: 1885 Season Reveal

[JesseK]

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[Lil' Lavery]

Great work. Especially love the compact battery location. Hopefully I can see it in action in DC.

[PayneTrain]

How's your CG looking?

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

How's your CG looking?

Not great; with bumpers it's at ~7" from the floor. There aren't any issues while driving around on the flat floor, but quick high-traction changes of direction on the tilted bridge cause wheels to leave the ground. Driver practice will help with that though.

The bridge lowering arms reach the floor and will also provide ~30ft-lbs of anti-tipping torque with some practice. The arms themselves are placed on the right-hand side of the robot for that explicit purpose -- the right hand side is the side closest to the wall when traversing going forward, so it's mostly protected from other bots.