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Originally Posted by Tom Line
$500 robots sound nice, don't they?
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You guys spend more than $500 on your robots? If we add the price of all three years robots our team wouldn't hit the $3500 season limit... This year, I actually listed KOP items (including the cRIO) on our BOM to try to make it and still didn't get there.
Maybe we need to step up our fundraising a notch or two to find out what we are really capable of...
At the same time, we've never had a major breakdown that couldn't be fixed with a little time or a few rubber bands. We had two repairs this year, a pneumatic solenoid block and two wheels. The pneumatics weren't properly tested and we had a defective solenoid, and the wheels were the result of a 6 foot dismount from the pyramid. Even then, we replaced the wheels because the had a small crack and we had an hour to kill, not because they were destroyed.
I think in average design for these robots, teams just need to think about what they are asking the machine to do. If it is strong enough to do the task, it should be able to handle any abuse a 16 year old with a joystick can throw at it.