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Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto
We are going to build three robots (1 comp and 2 practice) for 2016.
Why?
The competition season is longer than the build season.
We will do more development and iteration during the competition season than the build season.
We want two robots to iterate faster during the competition season.
I think its clear that the gap is wide between us and low resource teams because we have the money to buy 3x of robot parts, and get to play with two robots post-stop build, and low resource teams get to play with zero robots post-stop build.
You make the call if the gap shrinks when low-resource teams get to play with their one and only robot while we're playing with our two or three robots.
We meet 4 days a week.
-Mike
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I will point out that the $ cost of building a 2nd and 3rd robot is not substantial. Our robot build budget has not changed substantially as we add robots. Our increased budget has gone into other capital equipment purchases, stocking a set of new classes, and increased team members.