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We went from never having built a practice bot to building two this year (sort of)

Our mecanum wheel modules in 2011 and 2012 were similar enough that we could take last years modules out of our production bot and put them in a plywood frame (last year was narrow bot, this year was wide). The plywood frame effectively matched our production frame (which by the way is made of plywood and won the Industrial Design award at Lake Superior). We added 75lbs of weights and our driver practiced with it.

We also built a non-mobile base to mount our withheld shooter assembly so we could practice targeting and shooting.

Unfortunately our 4 slot cRIO went south as did its replacement from NI, so we had to share cRIOs between the two practice bots, so we could only use one at time.