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Unread 05-10-2011, 01:28
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Re: Never Do This, and Other Good Ideas Gone Bad

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Originally Posted by Kyler386 View Post
I wouldn't exactly rule it as a "never do this." There were many successful turret designs I'm sure, my comment was focused on our team, rather than all the other teams.
All of the counter examples are teams with lots of engineering support. Making things spin is not as easy as it might seem, and I think most of the "never do this" in this thread really mean "Don't do this unless you have the engineering support to do it right." For example, scissor-lifts are pretty common in the real-world, but the vast majority of FRC scissor-lifts don't really work that well. I can't think of a single design I've never seem implemented well by someone, but for some of the more complicated ones I've seen a heck of a lot more poor implementations than good ones.
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