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Originally Posted by Type
We built a practice robot that uses similar controls to our robot and similar function but looks entirely different and drives different. It's essentially just to test code, like we used it to figure out how to use two autos, then we also used it to work on vision tracking. It's not as good as our actual robot, but it's better than nothing.
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Originally Posted by engunneer
Count us among teams that build two non-identical robots. the first one had a few dimension and construction issues, and we've built 3-4 complete shooter assemblies by now between pre-bag and various withholding allowances.
The second bot was made better, and used what we learned on the first, but they are similar enough that the code transfers with few modifications between them. Electronics mounting is another story, and the practice robot only has a front bumper because our intake requires one.
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Originally Posted by nuclearnerd
Last year we built a second chassis from an old c-base kit and withheld our mechanism to get a practice robot on the cheap. It worked out really well, but we spent a lot of time during the first day of regionals putting our robot back together.
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It seems that most teams that do build practice robots make them fairly close to the competition one.
For those who build practice robots that are not close to identical to the competition one, what are the pros and cons for the practice robot being different? What are the major differences (other than cosmetics)? Would you continue to build practice robots that are different from the competition robot?