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Originally Posted by ebarker
Maybe a 1311 alliance. Kell Robotics is the Longhorns !!
Who knows.
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Ooooh! Let me join in on this 1311+1771+rookie uber alliance!!
back on to the topic at hand.
Simbotics has a lot of resources on their site
www.simbotics.org/resources
for rookie teams. Also, WPI Think Tank and the Chief Delphi papers are GREAT resources for students and mentors to learn from. When I did a fall training sort of program with my team (granted they didn't listen....
), I found a lot of presentations on drivetrains, arms, manipulators, and strategy. A lot of them are at the rookie level.
I agree with everyone here that you should use the Kitbot (though with steroids, as explained by Team 1114), but try to build one before the season starts, and what I like to do as an exercise is to design a robot for a previous year's game. Design it completely, and if resources permit, fabricate it. This allows the team to go through the full design process once before the season starts, and allows the team to gain experience designing a robot and being hands on with it.