Well, you would get a longer reach, correct? With an arm, even though it could technically be up to ~90 cm long, it would get a little unwieldy. I can think of a few ways to do it with a car (remember, stacks of pennies were a thing in Robo-Cross).windu34 wrote:I agree. At lower levels of competition, it may be possible to do well simply by pushing pennies into the target, but at higher levels when flipping the pennies becomes a must, a car would have a significant disadvantage (if it is even possible to place pennies after flipping them accurately with a car equipped with a shovel or scoop of some kind)Bazinga+ wrote:How would a car give an advantage? I think the task is significantly easier than using a fixed base arm rather than a separate car. Perhaps using a car is easier at a lower level for those with less resources available, and the event is meant for that initial challenge to exist.dragon_fruit35 wrote: Also, in Robo-Cross, at least using the loophole couldn't get you as many points as actually doing it the traditional way. In this case, I feel like using a car would provide an advantage. It doesn't exactly fit the spirit of the problem, although I do think that this definitely merits a clarification.
On a side note, the weirdest part of any rules I've ever read:
"teams must design, build, document,and test one robotic device to move U.S. Lincoln cents (pennies)"...Um, what other kind of pennies were they using?
