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Re: [FTC]: "Keep it simple, stupid:" design ideas seemingly ignored in FTC

(I didn't read any of the comments and its 11:15 at night) Our goal every year of FTC is a simple but effective robot, and that is what we went into judging with, if you look at our robot you can see after taking a good look that our robot is very simple compared to most and it worked very well (when it wasn't pushing the field) like for getting the bridge down we just ABS on the wheels (worked nicely and just adding on to an existing peace) also having a peace the can do more the one thing like our arm, we use it to collect/score/block/get over the bridge no matter whats on it and we are happy with the design, but what im saying is in FTC it is good to be simple but effective and it hasn't failed us yet well anyhow, I can not wait until September and its just a guess but I think most everyone else can't wait as well
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