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Re: prototypes
For 2014 Aerial Assist, we built a prototype robot with a wooden frame (nicknamed "Woody". It was working around week three or four, and we began on the real aluminum robot, "Buzz". We continued to use Woody for driver practice after bag and tag.
The past two years, we have adapted our drive platform from the KoP chassis, building two each year. As such, we no longer do a full-robot prototype, but we DO prototype our manipulators. This gets us through things a bit faster; for 2016 Stronghold, we built four different pickups and at least five different launchers in an ever-improving spiral of reliability and robustness.
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