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Re: Did you make a second robot? [POLL]

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Originally Posted by Thomas610 View Post
This year, we designed the backbone (the superstructure of the robot and the claw) of our robot to be easily removed (and lucky it was under 30lbs ). This lets us do maintenance and upgrades of our bot without having to make a practice bot. If you look at our robot between GTRC and ONWA, we managed to get our high goal shooting nailed down (pretty huge change in performance) by working on the real claw for our bot. Kind of a nice balance between making a practice bot and not.
Did you mount the backbone/superstructure on something like a chassis from a previous year so you could drive it around and simulate it being on your "real" chassis?
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