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Re: The Not So-Secret Secret End-Game

If it's worth anything, my mentor (who's on JVN) instilled in me the only year I was a member in FRC (last year) was to build in modules/subsystems. I find this truly valuable if teams think there will be a "secret end game". If you build the thrower as a module(s)/subsystem(s), you can easily build another module(s)/subsystem(s) to accommodate the end game.

Robot design shouldn't be 100% around each of the mechanisms you build, but instead as a complete system.

Just some thoughts,
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