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What are we allowed to leave out when we bag and tag the robot ?

What are we allowed to leave out when we bag and tag the robot ?

Are we allowed to leave out the cRio/power distribution board?

The FAQ's were vague at best regarding the rules, one mentioned that you should "make of checklist of things you want to leave out, (like the cRIO)" but i want to make sure that leaving out essentially the entire electrical board would be ok.

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Re: What are we allowed to leave out when we bag and tag the robot ?

You are allowed to leave out anything you want provided you can meet all rules at the competition related to the witholding allowance.

Read the rules carefully but you do not actually have to bag anything if you can work your robot properly withing the witholding rules.

That said I reccoment shipping as much as you can but the cRIO doesn't need to ship. If you need to hold it.

As for the PD board if it's just the COTS part that is straightforward. If you're talking assembled wiring and motor controllers you will eat up your witholding allowance quickly.

Just carefully read the witholding allowance rules. It really is all in there.
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Re: What are we allowed to leave out when we bag and tag the robot ?

You may leave out up to 30 pounds of fabricated upgrade parts for your robot, the bumpers, human controll board/driverstation and an unlimited ammount of COTS parts - The Crio can be counted as COTS unless integrated into an entire wired system.

*A wired electrical system does not count as COTS and counts as an upgrade part.
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Re: What are we allowed to leave out when we bag and tag the robot ?

The robot should be in the bag except for batteries & bumpers.

You are allowed to take 30 lb (rule R21) of fabricated items to the competition to add to, upgrade, spare parts, etc. So if you are still working on something, you can leave it out as long as it weighs less than 30 lb But if you have 30lb of robot, you cannot bring any fabricated spares.

You are allowed to bring an unlimited amounts of COTs items to put on your robot. So you can leave off motors, gearboxes, electronics, etc, as long as they are unmodified from their as bought condition.


So if your programmers need to continue to write & test code you can keep the Crio & electric bits to test code. The entire electrical board would be a mixture of COTs & fabricated items. Keep the fabricated items to less than 30lb. Separate the COTs from the electrical board if WT is an issue.

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Question Re: What are we allowed to leave out when we bag and tag the robot ?

does something as a hammer count as part of the extra 30 pounds, im not sure about this, we are a first year team, so do any tools that we bring along count for our total weigh? And for that matter do the bumpers?
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Re: What are we allowed to leave out when we bag and tag the robot ?

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does something as a hammer count as part of the extra 30 pounds, im not sure about this, we are a first year team, so do any tools that we bring along count for our total weigh? And for that matter do the bumpers?
No for both.

Bumpers and batteries are not counted in the weight allowance, and tools are something you just bring in.
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Re: What are we allowed to leave out when we bag and tag the robot ?

Tools do not count, and this year bumpers do not count either for the 30 pounds
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