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Unread 03-01-2013, 13:35
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Re: Philosophies on design reuse

If a team is using the AndyMark C-channels, and they happen to determine that they should use the same motors, gearboxes and gear ratios and the same size wheels, as they had used in a previous year, they will end up with the "same design" for their drive base. It will also likely be pretty much the same as the drive base used by a number of other teams who arrived at the same solution. I don't feel this is bad as long as the teams went through the engineering exercise that happened to lead them to a solution they had used before since this is an engineering competition and one of it's goals is to teach the team members how do work through the engineering exercise. As someone had posted in an earlier reply "FIRST isn't really about the robot".