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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV
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.
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Our 2013 IRI robot was based off of 254, sort of. We used 254 as a reference but the robot we competed with at IRI was what we should have built had we followed our original robot objectives we came up with on kickoff.
I would say that the IRI bot didn't perform as well as 254 that year, I think alot of that was due to a lack of practice time with that robot. We only finished it maybe a week before IRI.
Which brings it back to the topic of copying. Copy all you want but if you don't get practice time in you will never perform as well as those who get practice time.
A good practiced driver with an OK robot will beat a non practiced driver with the perfect robot every time.