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Re: Team Update 14 (2016)
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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV View Post
Actually this is a good idea, what other teams have attempted clones in the off-season? I remember Wave brought a robot to IRI in 2013 that was similar to 254's 2013 robot. AusTin Cans had a robot in 2013 off-season that took it's cues from the Holy Cows, Killer Bees, and other robots of that archetype. I've never seen a cloned FRC robot that works even remotely as well as the original. I'm pretty sure if teams tried to clone most designs just from CAD they would have a lot of trouble as well.

Our gearbox this year is based on 1114's gearbox from 2014. It met a lot of our design needs and we didn't want to reinvent the wheel. Even just building that part of the robot with a CAD file in hand took some reverse engineering and thought.
We all have to keep in mind its more than the mechanical robot itself too. Trying to clone the programming for the drive system (254's spline in auto from 2014?) would be hard enough never mind trying to get any of the vision systems working.
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