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Re: Replacing graduating seniors

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Originally Posted by KrazyCarl92 View Post
Given that scenario, one way you can increase your chances of a successful season next year is through smart strategic design. If you check out Karthik's strategic design presentation, it basically walks you through how to go about building the best robot your team possibly can. Golden Rule #1 is to build within your team's resources.
Pneumatics, pneumatics, pneumatics.

As a backup plan, make sure you fully understand how to utilize pneumatics on your robot if you aren't able to find/train new programmers.

I say this because a lot of common tasks (i.e. rotating a intake down, adjusting shooter pitch) that require moving a mechanism to a precise potion can be accomplished using either a motor or a pneumatic cylinder. Using a motor will generally require adding a sensor and some sort of control algorithm to ensure that the mechanism stops exactly where you want it to stop. Pneumatics limit that mechanism to two positions, but makes it significantly easier to ensure that the mechanism ends up in the correct two positions.
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