My team is preparing for the next over under tournament, and we were trying to find a spot to attach the license plate. I was trying to find the book if it is legal to attach double-sided license plates to shafts that will hang as a “flag” and can potentially swivel a tiny bit.
This is legal as long as it is visible on two sides that is opposite from one another.
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I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure it’s fine as long as it doesn’t interfere with other bots or fall off. It might get knocked off by another bot if it’s hanging out too far.
I took a look at R9, and I think the flag idea is acceptable under the criteria.
However, I would not recommend attaching your license plates so loosely. I could build a full robot with the amount of license plates that fall off at matches.
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I mean… It could work.
I just don’t see why. As @Micahy321 said, it seems to be totally legal under R9, but during a competition, you want to minimize the points of failure that you can have on your robot, and I just don’t think that attaching license plates like this is worth the risk that it poses. It’s not an inherently bad idea, it’s just risk vs. reward. If one of your motors is overheating, your license plate is falling off, and you have a match in a minute it’s a lot easier to just spray your motors with some freeze spray than have to do that and fix your license plate when it could have been avoided.
So, yes and no. Do it at your own risk.
As far as my knowledge on this goes, this is perfectly legal, as long as you can see both sides, as @Hmm_Persons said. But it might be a little loose, and can potentially fall off. Look into that.
If I were to do this, I would have shaft collars so that there is no chance of the license plates falling off.
it seems to be overhanging the edge of the bot and therefor can interact with triballs which given plates are decorations would not be legal. if you could contain it in the bot and put a metal plate to back it it would 100% be legal but the current state could be up for interpretation
also just a recommendation it isnt ideal to have your battery outside your bot, if that gets hit and knocked off that just game over
It is legal as long as you have the plates on opposite sides, and the plates are not there to help the robot do a task. If they are positioned just to be a flag then that is completely fine.
One potential problem I see with this is if its functional as its not backed by any structure.
I see, thanks for your replies everyone!
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