[GreyingJay]

We built two nearly identical robots - differences ended up being in Victor 888 vs Victor SP motor controllers and locations/wiring. The real robot was based on the AM14U3 and the practice robot was based on the AM14U2 that we bought from an AndyMark Deal of the Day sale.

Building a practice robot is an essential part of our schedule/strategy. We bagged a robot that was physically complete but had virtually no software ready by Stop Build. We used the practice robot to debug the configuration of our pneumatic arm (up, down, and "floating"), do a bunch of software development work, autonomous testing, integrate the camera for vision processing, and many hours of drive team practice.