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Re: Post Season Robot Upkeep

We usually have quite a few oppurtunities to show-off our robot in the off-season, usually at a school assembly/rally or a sponsor presentation. Often times, we play around with the bot a day or two before when we'll need it and often times there's a problem and we end up fixing it at the last minute. That remains true for our competition bot. Our T-Shirt cannon and demo bots are made entirely out of old robot parts (like really old) and they use the old radio instead of the cRIO. These bots get played around with all the time (especially our t-shirt cannon) and so in the rare occurrence that there is a major problem, we usually have plenty of time to fix it. So, to summarize, we basically just "checklist" our bots when we know they'll be needed, we don't see the need of regularly scheduled inspection. If the bot is tucked away in it's own little corner with nothing near it that can cause a problem, nothing will really happen to it. Of course, since our parts are old, we do have to occasionally replace parts and cables.
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