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Re: Poll on winning teams using practice bots

Team 190 did not have a practice robot (now, or ever in the past), but we did keep our shooter between each event and attach it to a 2x4 and plywood replica of the last stage of our collector. We designed the shooter to come on and off the robot in about 1/2 hour or less and have quick disconnect wires for all the motors and sensors. While not as beneficial as a practice robot, this did give our programmers the opportunity to work on the vision targeting code and get some baseline numbers down for our shooting positions.

Our total expenditure was nothing, as we only used stuff that was laying around in our lab and the actual, competition ready shooter.
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