25-07-2012, 00:34
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no bag, vex only, final destination
AKA: Pinecone
 FRC #0228 (GUS Robotics); FRC #2170 (Titanium Tomahawks) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 7,623
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Re: [FTC]: Unlimited raw materials. Welding. Wow!
I hate it. One of the best things about FTC back in the Vex days, and one of the highly emphasized portions of the competition, is that you only needed hand tools to build a competitive robot. A hacksaw and a file was literally all you needed to build an FTC robot that could win the World Championship - it was a pure "smarts" challenge and resources didn't come into play at all. This made it the perfect competition for schools without machine shops with basically no barrier to entry other than cost.
What is the program now? Certainly not that. In my mind, if you want advanced machining you go to FRC.
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