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Originally Posted by ICanCountTo19
It does have great potential though, it's made it to Einstein, it's all about implementation I guess.
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I think this is true for pretty much any design idea. There are few designs that are universally bad in all cases. A design may be poorly suited to a particular game, or the team may fail at execution, but given the right situation and great implementation, even the much-maligned scissor lift can be done successfully.
That being said, I do have a list of designs I will avoid unless I REALLY am convinced they're necessary. Among them are: mecanum drive, holonomic drive, scissor lifts, the aforementioned "big hopper of balls" with a single (small) door, 3+ axis arms, and high reduction BaneBots gearboxes on high-torque applications. Most of these I learned firsthand, over my college years.