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Re: How will they top WILL I AM?

Yes the Woz has been around FIRST for a while.

In our pit back in 2007:

Re: How will they top WILL I AM?

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Originally Posted by Taylor (Post 1092508)

I can't believe nobody's said Randall Munroe.

ahhh! That would make my life... FRC + xkcd = enough awesomeness to make my head explode

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Originally Posted by Taylor (Post 1092508)

Can you imagine the animation?

I can see it now... Red spiders crawling around the playing field, office chair swordfighting, and infinite grids of one ohm resisters. Best. Idea. Ever.

Re: How will they top WILL I AM?

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Originally Posted by Brandon Holley (Post 1091692)

However, I saw plenty of minibots with heavily borrowed designs- especially towards the end of the season- that wouldn't take many motors to develop at all. Particularly when you were essentially using the experience of another's design to avoid some of the pitfalls.

And that's a good thing? Not that teams that copied (us included) did anything wrong, but saying an expensive engineering challenge with crap parts is justified just because "you can copy the smart teams later!" is silly.

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Originally Posted by Chris is me (Post 1092569)

I wasnt saying that was a good thing at all. I was just stating that teams who copied minibots were most likely going through less of the tetrix motors.

I almost fully agree with everything you have said thus far. I think the difference in viewpoint we have is that I disconnect the idea of a minibot from FTC parts almost completely. I'm looking at it purely from a view of "something for a robot to do on the field" ie: shoot balls into goals, stack boxes, hang tubes on pegs, hang from a bar, race miniature "robots".

From that viewpoint, I think the minibots were a good challenge. The fact that we were required to use less than stellar components and the bad scoring algorithm are what ultimately made them disappointing to most of us.

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Originally Posted by Brandon Holley (Post 1092570)

From that viewpoint, I think the minibots were a good challenge. The fact that we were required to use less than stellar components and the bad scoring algorithm are what ultimately made them disappointing to most of us.

I agree; the concept of the challenge was fun, flawed in a couple ways, but fun nonetheless.

I actually want to see minibots again or a function similar to minibots/auxiliary machines. I loved the little robots from 2002 many teams used (got to play around with 11's "MiniMORT" robot).

Try to veer away from all the negatives once in a while and point out what was good about the engineering challenge. We all mostly agree on the parts we disliked but were mandated to use, and I think (hope) FIRST knows that by now.