Fasteners extending outside the FRAME PERIMETER

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by Joe Johnson

except there is another blue box tha says something about No Mushroom bots -- which is crazy because to me a short robot with the FRAME PERIMETER extending out beyond the edges of the lower robot is almost exactly what I would think of when you say "Mushroom bot" but it is in a rule saying that this is NOT what you want...

Glad I'm not the only one confused. All along, I had no idea what they meant by "no mushroom bots", and yes, to me it seems this is exactly what you would want in order to satisfy the rule. Does FIRST know about some rare inverted mushroom that I do not?

[Manoel]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Glad I'm not the only one confused. All along, I had no idea what they meant by "no mushroom bots", and yes, to me it seems this is exactly what you would want in order to satisfy the rule. Does FIRST know about some rare inverted mushroom that I do not?

They want a mushroom bot, except they don't... The thing is, the mushroom pileus (cap) HAS to be the frame perimeter, not something above. Either way, you have a mushroom bot, only one of them being legal. Anyway, that fungal reference is in a blue warning box and, as stated at the top of the manual, they don't have the weight of a rule and, whenever contradicting a rule, are void.