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Originally Posted by cseabury
I fully agree. Watching a team of seasoned professionals with unlimited resources sets completely unrealistic expectations for the average 15 year old student at an unfunded public high school club. Let them compete at their own level and enjoy the experience.
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Most of the 3 day robots are made with cots parts and limited resources. A lot of these robots appear to well under the costs limits of a robot. A couple used the kit chassis. All of them used a chassis that would be analogues to the kit chassis. A few appear to be a couple hundred bucks more expensive but could easily scaled back to be cheaper.
if 15 year old me had finished a semester of wood shop, i think me and my high school friends could have built most of these robots, maybe cut a few corners but it would not be unrealistic. Probably would botch the boom done programming but if you raised the age to 18; Yeah I bet we could have done it. They would not look as nice, all the socket cap screw heads would have been stripped in the process, and probably we would have taken out a ceiling light in the room. Totally realistic.