Thread: This year's mousebot?
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Unread 07-01-2003, 21:29
sanddrag sanddrag is offline
On to my 16th year in FRC
FRC #0696 (Circuit Breakers)
Team Role: Teacher
  
Join Date: Jul 2002
Rookie Year: 2002
Location: Glendale, CA
Posts: 8,510
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Last year, a lot of teams (like us) put a lot of time and money into building a 20 foot telescoping pole that would never touch the ground. This device was just barely compliant with the original rules. We spent a really long time and a lot of money making it just to follow the rules and in the end we could not use it because it was too heavy. We got beaten by teams who broke the rules with mousebots. And these mousebots were a $30 3 hour job.

I look down upon any team who used a mousebot, tapemeasure (don't even get me started on that), or similar device last year.

Just Follow the Rules Darnet!

I can't really say what this years mousebot will be. I'll have to think about that some more.
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