pic: Second year team needs your help: Are these bumpers legal?!?!!?

[Tyler Olds]

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[Akash Rastogi]

lolololololololololol

Looks sick Tyler.

[synth3tk]

Something about those bumpers seem illegal, but I can't place my finger on it...

[wilsonmw04]

Hiya Dude,
you need to take a step back and reread the rules on the bumpers. Read the WHOLE section. FIRST has detailed exactly how to make legal bummers using pool noodles, fabric. Aluminum angle and plywood. please read page 11 in "the robot" section of the rules. Those are not suggested bumpers, those are how they need to look in order to pass inspection.

[EricLeifermann]

I can't believe that you posted this on here Tyler! You call me all the time asking about rules and i don't even get called about the bumpers!?!?!? I could have told you that if you just make them like 2 times as big you can easily fit your team number in there and be legal!

I think im going to take a day or 2 off of my spring break to take a trip to the Wisconsin regional and see this thing in action.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

Hiya Dude,
you need to take a step back and reread the rules on the bumpers. Read the WHOLE section. FIRST has detailed exactly how to make legal bummers using pool noodles, fabric. Aluminum angle and plywood. please read page 11 in "the robot" section of the rules. Those are not suggested bumpers, those are how they need to look in order to pass inspection.

2826 has definitely built a quality robot with legal bumpers before. They're just kidding.

Originally Posted by Jeff Pahl

I'm gonna say no just because I don't want to have to compete with that thing (twice)

Looks great Tyler!!

Why do you think I moved to New York???

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

2826 has definitely built a quality robot with legal bumpers before. They're just kidding.

Didn't sense the sarcasm in the first read. Didn't get it in the second or third either. My sarcasm meter must be defective, or it could be the fact that I haven't met with my team in 9 days and I might be a tad depressed seeing how far behind we are.

[EricH]

What tipped me off was that an MC, 2nd year mentor and more-years-than-that participant "partially skimmed" Section 6 to find bumper information.

That's something that means 1) You're REALLY, REALLY lousy at knowing what you're doing in this competition, or 2) You're making a joke.

By the way, you are planning on removing those or filling in the gaps to comply with <R07>'s attachment requirements (refined in Update 6 and Update 7), right?

[Pausert]

I'm going to take a stab that this is actually some sort of awesome bumper /attachment/ system.

[cbale2000]

Warning: Thread contains massive amounts of sarcasm!


On a serious note though, I am curious as to what the purpose of these rubber things are...

• Is it just a feature to hook the bumpers on to (seems a bit excessive if that's the case)?
• Is it just intended to provide extra shock protection and if so, what is the reasoning for needing it in addition to standard bumpers?
• Is this just 100% a joke and you're not actually planning to use them?
• Is there some other purpose I'm missing here?

[Tyler Olds]

Originally Posted by cbale2000

Warning: Thread contains massive amounts of sarcasm!

All right it's time that I come clean...................

Yes the point of this image is a joke, but was also meant to dual serve as a teaser pic as well.

The rubber grommets will not be used for the robot. The students put them on the robot for kicks and made the joke that we could use it as the bumper........

I just really wanted to have some fun in the community, as Karibou said this is basically what inspired me to post this.............

Originally Posted by Karibou

It's week 5, I'm running on 5 hours of sleep, typing coherent sentences takes several tries and requires over-use of the backspace key, and the pessimism is setting in. Thank you for making me laugh [:

Glad I could make a couple people laugh and smile in this stressful build season!

[Meredith Novak]

It's not so much the laughing as the thought (just for a second even) that someone out there is dumber than I am

[Pjohn1959]

Originally Posted by Meredith Novak

It's not so much the laughing as the thought (just for a second even) that someone out there is dumber than I am

Not possible!

[cbeavers6790]

wow

[O'Sancheski]

yeah... i'm pretty sure that those bumpers aren't legal. If you take a look at this link, you can see our bumpers from last year. Just simple pool noodles wrapped in the specified fabric by FIRST. I hope this helps.

BTW... nice sturdy looking robot.


http://team-paragon.org/history/para...8.jpg&index=15