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My fingers have just suffered from numerous cuts and scrapes. :(

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Our team has more or less stuck to our original design.
Our strategy focus has also stayed the same, a highly offensive scoring robot, and a fairly strong defensive drive base.

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In reality, I don't think our team actually had an original design. All the group meeting were pretty much planning and opinions and strategies. We're pretty much going with the flow and see how it turns out. A harvester is finally in the process, a launcher is finally being worked on, and a hopper, *gasp*, is finally being figured out and made. this all started yesterday. Programming did a lot of work for the past three weeks.

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First, I would like to say to LightWaves1636 that I am sorry that I was overly harsh in the beginning. I believe that FIRST and Chief Delphi should be a fun place where anyone can join and be accepted, no matter who they are, and not feel alienated by others. I guess I kind of overreacted a little when I first saw this topic...

Anyway, back to the original topic, for our design, we actually broke up into about 6 different groups and had each come up with a different design idea. We then had them all present their ideas to the team as a whole and hung them all up in our lab. We picked apart each design and incorperated them into the robot as we went along, so our robot doesn't actually resemble any of the orginal designs... just bits and peices of each...

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I thought that a linear accelerator would be a possible bot. After realizing the massive power requirements (as I figured that by having no moving parts it would be easy-peasy and efficient).

We are now going with a 4-wheel drive bot (inventor pics) with a catapult-like design. One thing I find interesting is that no other teams are going with this approach (that I know of). It seemed to be more efficient as long as accuracy was good.

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We've stuck to our design and it's coming along great...it's a strong defender with great speed...our traction is alot more than last year's robot so it can't turn in place anymore but ohh well...

Other than that everything is coming along great...and I thought last year's robot was tough...this year's robot is Karen the Warrior!!

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haha, we had something like that come up today, a kid in a power wheels truck throwing balls around

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Our robot design was to do everything. We decided to ditch the wheel and gearbox we use and fly... wait nvm. I can't say.

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coolie, thx, I accept, i was just really intrested in if other teams stuck to original ideas and see how much they changed. Like us, we're stuck on one path because well our team couldn't get it together until like last week. I walked into the classroom to join in the design idea and Josh said midget with a potato gun and jessica was saying that we'll just put cardbox around him and I just went "what?" then they started the whole thing in more detail.

I think we have a lot of prototypes of well, everything except the design for the harvester happened once which was pretty cool when I drove the bot around collecting balls. The hopper, well they're trying to get pneumatics and it keeps launching the lid off(they'll figure it out), the launcher is on it's way and BTW team 1636 will like to thank Mark of team 358 with helping with our launcher, and programming has been well, bored since our autonomous code can't fully be tested correctly without everything, but we come up with ideas to pass the time if we can't really be of any help to the building :) (too many people crowding to help build).