I found a 24 Inch Force Sensing Resistor (FSR) Strip that is paper thin and 0.6 inches wide. Will it fit the specifications on the bumper to use such a sensor around the bumper of the robot?
Yes, you may use this product. The purpose of the bumper is to prevent robots from harming other robots. This product will not violate the description nor purpose of the bumper. • The rules say 10 points is given to a robot that leaves the home base. Is the 10 points awarded for leaving the base at the start of play or after dumping blocks and not being in the base at the end of play? For initially leaving home base after the start signal has been given. • The scoring system is set up so that if a robot brings in more than 4 blocks to its base that it receives points for the 4 lowest scoring blocks and the other robot gets points for the excess blocks. This means that a smart robot would, in the case of not having enough points to win, deposit all of its blocks in the opposing team’s base. This way, with all 7 blocks in the opposing team’s base, only the lowest 4 would be awarded to that team and the robot with no blocks would get the higher 3 and therefore having the winning number of
