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Re: How to make your robot withstand the beating
Build within your means – not every team has machinists, welders, and the like with the capability to make parts, chassis, and manipulators with skill. Know your limits.
I'm going to echo others on this thread. Past failures are the best teachers.
Specifically, consider adding redundancy to the robot. Try to avoid designing in possible failures that would affect multiple subsystems on the robot. From a reliability standpoint, consider west coast drive.
Team 20 chose a six-wheel, dropped center west coast drive this year, saving us in WPI, during Finals 3. In our case, it let us continue to drive – absolutely necessary for our floor pickup and shooter. This design choice helped us to remain operable, though not at our best.
After seeing Einstein, I am definitely willing to put a zip tie around the Anderson connectors to the PD Board and the battery...
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