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Originally Posted by David Brinza
I read in the "1717 Uncut" CD thread that a couple of thousand hours were invested in this design.
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Originally Posted by IanW
I'm confused how ten people could even spend 2000 hours working on a model during the build season and still have time to actually fabricate it, let alone design the rest of the robot. I mean, with school, homework, sleep, and my team's build space not being open, I wasn't even able to put in 200 hours over the course of the entire build season, and that includes time spent CADding at home.
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Originally Posted by SuperNerd256
I think the "2000 hours" is collectively over the course of the 4 year time period in which they started using swerve. It could be in one build season, but like you said it would be tough.
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The wheel module design this year was completely new. The new motor allowance for this year allowed us to build independent swerve drive without sacrificing power for other mechanisms. We designed the module during this build season as rookie seniors. It took about 2000 man hours to both design and fabricate 10 wheel modules (4 for the official robot, 4 for the practice robot, and 2 spares). The fabrication process of the modules was quite time-consuming and tedious.
On average, we seniors put in about 500 hours during the robotics season. Some of us, including the programmers and drivers, exceeded 750 hours during the robotics season. We are able to dedicate this much time to robotics because we are in our second semester with a light course load. Also, we only get one opportunity to do this awesome competition so we are extremely excited and dedicated to building our robot!