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                         This site provides directions to build "The Beast" 
                          (shown to right) as well as advice on sensor configurations. 
                          This design had several advantages over the basic Trusty 
                          design. First its get old constantly repairing your 
                          robot and we wanted a design that was steardy. The beast 
                          manages to be durable enough, it is hard to pull apart, 
                          yet the batteries can be accessed fairly easily by pulling 
                          the entire roll cage off in one piece. As an added bonus 
                          the turing radius manages to be smaller and more consistant 
                          than the basic robot. So, the beast does more than just 
                          look cool, the design actually helped reduce the amount 
                          of work we needed to do in the long run. 
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