Overview
Protect your Balboa robot from falls with this bumper cage kit, which includes:
- four bumper skids
- four bumper cage cross bars
- two bumper skid spacers
- twelve 12 mm M3 screws and nuts
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One of the many possible configurations of the bumper cage on the Balboa 32U4 Balancing Robot. |
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One of the many possible configurations of the bumper cage on the Balboa 32U4 Balancing Robot. |
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The Balboa 32U4 can drive around on its side while resting on the bumper cage skids. |
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One of the many possible configurations of the bumper cage on the Balboa 32U4 Balancing Robot (lengthened with Stability Conversion accessory). |
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The bumper cage skids and cross bars include a number of holes and slots sized to work with #4 and M3 screws, which gives you a lot of flexibility in how you can put them together and what you can mount to them (see the bumper cage kit dimension diagram (152k pdf) for more information). The following example shows them holding a QTR-8RC reflectance sensor array in front of the Balboa 32U4 Robot with the Stability Conversion accessory:
For more information on this bumper cage kit, including the chassis angles that can be achieved with the various mounting positions and orientations, see the bumper cage section of the Balboa 32U4 Balancing Robot user’s guide. Assembly of the bumper cage kit is explained in the assembly instructions in that same user’s guide.
