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Unread 21-12-2015, 19:39
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Re: Belt-in-tube drive base

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Originally Posted by Captain_Kirch View Post
If I can throw in my two cents, kickoff is far too close to properly prototype such a system. When it comes to trying something like this you have to give yourself proper time to prototype, fail, iterate, fail again, rinse, and repeat.

Be realistic here, kickoff is in 19 days and you have two major holidays in there (in America at least). This sounds like an off season project to my ear, and the off season is over. It's pre-season, prepare for the build season.

There's time enough to try new ideas when your season isn't on the line.
Maybe it's just a Muskegon thing, but we are still playing with a prototype drivetrain as well. Both us and 4004 have a pretty good student base to take care of preparation items for the upcoming season. This just feels like a perfect time to keep playing with new ideas. If our season success was determined by the work we do leading up to kickoff rather than after kickoff, I know quite a few teams that would be in trouble every season.
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