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Re: When to make practice bots
We use our practice robot as a way to get all the kinks worked out of our design. We don't have the skillset and time to CAD the entire robot in the short build season so we just CAD the rough overall plan and CAD particular tricky parts. The rest we work out on the fly with the practice robot not worrying much about weight. We use 80/20 for the practice robot because it goes together so much quicker and we can change our minds. That's usually turned over to software by week 4. We then switch to 80/20's Quickframe and other lighter materials for the competition robot which usually get's done half way through week 6.
When things like the drive train are set in stone (usually around week 2-3) we'll start doing that portion for the competition robot in parallel with higher level things happening on the prototype.
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