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Originally Posted by jman4747
I don't know why you all are here but I joind FRC to make cool robots and because when I saw 2010 champs back when I was too young to compete I thought that there was no way I could do all that (looking at some team electrical system. I could design a WCD in a day or two now.
I don't care about WCD. I don't want to try and shave a 1/4lb of my sixth iteration of a WCD. I want to actually look around in the Math section in LabVIEW and know what an "arc tangent" is. Enough with this 6WD 8WD is on some special peice of carpet. I hope I never win champs with the same old boring robot as 2K other teams. It better be the coolest most difficult, fun to talk about and look at and think about and know that it was hard and I learned somthing.
If you don't have money figure out how to do it with less.
If you don't have the tools figure out how make it without.
Be an engineer solve the challenge.
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I think there's a fundamental difference here. I can tell you that any team that has won champs did not win with the "same boring robot as 2000 other teams." They also worked hard on something they thought was cool, and I'm willing to bet it was difficult for them to build that level of robot as well.
Besides that, you can definitely be unique in other ways than the drivetrain. 254 this year was pretty much one of a kind despite using a fairly standard drivetrain (though they were the one of the first teams to popularize the system).