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Re: FIRST Choice 2015 Window Open

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Originally Posted by HydePhoenix View Post
Thanks for your replies. This begs the question - that I had yet to consider: Will we, in our rookie year, have a practice robot?
This is a decision you have to make as a team. If I were starting a team I would do whatever was needed to make some type of practice robot. My first year with Spectrum we build a practice robot but we did it by removing nearly all of our electronics from the competition robot on bag day and reinstalling them at our first event. It would have been far easier if we had a second controller and everything even if it were an older generation since most of the code is transferable from the cRIO to the RoboRIO (depending on your programming language and features you choose to use).

We also were meeting every day throughout the entire competition season, Jan-Apr. So a practice robot was very useful.
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