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Re: [FTC]: "Keep it simple, stupid:" design ideas seemingly ignored in FTC
On our team we normally have a few iterations of a mechanism before it reaches its final stage. However I think the simplicity of the robots corresponds with the game. We decided to design something quite interesting and its floating around the forums already, but we designed a coaxial crab drive to play the game. Again i'll say it was never built (yet) but it started incredibly complex, but as the students worked it got simpler and simpler (for what it was). Also I think that with FTC kit being smaller people are encouraged to experiment with things to see what the kit can actually handle, I am one of them. But over all in FTC i think it comes down to elegance of design over simplicity.
but thats my 2 cents
- Andrew
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