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

Oh hey there Joe.
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When I was in FRC, simplicity was key to a solid, competitive robot, as it usually meant fewer things could break, less weight, lower cost, and less time spent designing/testing/building/fixing.
Well, those last ones are very true for FTC. However, in our experience, just because a robot is more complicated does not mean that it breaks more often. During Worlds our robot only burned a servo. This is because we designed many fail-safe mechanisms and programming safeguards.

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...or Say Watt, and it seems the word "simple" is not the their vocabulary!
In FLL, we used the KISS principle. And we would lose.
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