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Originally Posted by Ed Law
I told you what I will do with my team if we have unlimited access. Tell me what you will do with your team, not what you think other teams you don't know anything about may do. Otherwise this discussion here is meaningless.
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I like this idea.
3847s Current Build Schedule
- 48 days straight (we meet three days before kickoff as well). This is mostly because we like spending time together. We could spend a lot less time and still build the same robot.
- Pretty much 7 days a week during competition season as well unless I'm away at a competition where the team isn't competing.
- 2 weeks are spent prototyping
- the goal is to have the practice robot done by the end of week 4 and then the real robot by about week 5 and half.
- 2 Kitbot Build Days 2nd and 4th Sundays of build season
- 1 Bumper Build (super bowl Sunday morning)
- 1 weekend scrimmage (only a 1/4 field but it still helps)
- a huge amount of time is spent trying to make the practice robot the same as the competition robot and it rarely ever gets that way.
No Bag Day Schedule
- We wouldn't meet the first few Sundays and the initial meeting hours wouldn't be till 10pm or 11pm like they currently are.
- I would be able to go to another team one day each week and help them. I try to do this anyway but it's a lot harder with our normal schedule.
- Without the need to build a practice robot those resources can be diverted to other places. We only need to make two or three of everything instead of 4 or 5 like we currently do. Meaning we would could help other teams machine parts with our sponsor resources since we are using less.
- We would have our practice field open to teams every weekend except for those when we are at competition. We already meet with some teams during competition season but it's only the teams with practice robots.
- One of these practice days would also be a pre-inspection event for local teams. How to enforce this is something I have been thinking about for a while. I think by working with regional directors and organizations that provide funding to teams to put these events in as grant requirements could provide a big incentive to teams.