Thread: Team 4488 Shockwave Introduces: Wildfire
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Unread 12-03-2014, 06:33
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Hi Saw this robot mentioned by a fellow mentor in the FRC Top 25 thread. He called it our long lost fraternal twin!

We had a group of students push forward with a surgical tubing choo-choo based catapult till very late into the build process. It was an excellent shooter, but we ultimately had to make a decision, and the final robot ended up with an also excellent cam driven spring powered one. It's always difficult when one idea has to be chosen over another, but because of their work, we had two very strong catapult options to choose from instead of one.

I love being able to show my students robots which are similar, but which took the alternate design paths that we couldn't. It helps validate all the hard work that didn't end up on our final robot, and that's really important.

Congratulations on the amazing year so far! I know for a fact you've got at least a few fans here on 610 who are looking forward to seeing this robot at champs.
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