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Re: How old is your oldest robot

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
I'm going to wait for clarification on what "completely repurposed our robot" means before frowning too hard at you. If you removed unmodified commercially available components and reused them this year, that's fine. But if you actually turned last year's robot into the one you're competing with this year, or if you are just reusing fabricated assemblies from the old robot, that's a problem.
We mainly used the metal, the pulleys, belts, all of the electronics...basically everything BUT our fabricated parts. Those are on our trophy shelf commemorating our rookie year. We wouldn't have done anywhere as well as we did this year if we just used our old robot.
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