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Re: pic: LASA Robotics (FRC418) 2014 Robot - PHireWire

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Originally Posted by Racer26 View Post
You know, it's funny.

I watched kickoff, and my immediate reaction was that we're going to see a TON of Simbot SS clones, and as the weeks of build season progressed, it seemed like the majority ran away from that idea, and this is the first one vaguely reminiscent I've seen as a finished product.
I think that it's because teams quickly complicated the designs by wanting to add variable angles. realizing that they needed to adapt the geometry, and just generally shrinking the design with larger/more unwieldy electronics. "Improving" an SS-esque design was probably significantly harder than many teams originally thought it would be.
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