
12-12-2013, 19:36
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 FRC #2977 (Sir Lancer Bots)
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Join Date: Jan 2013
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Location: Minnesota
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Re: Vex Versachassis
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Originally Posted by DampRobot
I don't know about you, but that's pretty much exactly when I'm going to start ordering parts for my team.
One thing that I really like about the VersaChassis system is that you can build inventory and still maintain a lot of versatility. You can basically order parts for the drive, and decide while they're in the mail how you're going to configure your drive. Before, there were always some long lead AM, BB or SDPSI products that you needed to order early, and once you ordered them, you really couldn't change what type of drive you wanted. Now, you could probably change your drive multiple times per season, without reordering anything!
I'm also excited about the idea of being able to buy one of these systems and testing out manipulator prototypes on it really quickly. If you're in the one day shipping zone, you can buy most of these parts on kickoff day, then spend all of week one working with prototypes on an actual drive base (which very well could end up being your final one). A lot of the things people miss in prototyping are stuff like driver alignment or precision issues that suddenly becomes apparent when the mechanism is being driven around on a robot instead of by humans. Getting a DT really early could help with finding a lot of these types of errors early in prototyping, when you can still change it, rather when the actual robot comes together in week 6.
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That's a very good point. That is around the time that we'd be ordering gearboxes/parts for the game specific parts of the robot.
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