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Originally Posted by bkahl
There is a reason Mike Corsetto says "Steal from the best, invent the rest" in every post asking why 1678 is so good.
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Originally Posted by Fusion_Clint
I know that 2056 and all of the top teams teach their students the how and why, they have too. You can't pick the right COTS part without understanding how it works.
The implication I took from the troll post was "don't worry about design and copy what 2056 does."
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Since I got quoted on here, figured it would be about time to chime in
Devin stated a lot of our teams development over the past 4 years. Just as a heads up, the kids are designing a pneumatic catapult on a turret this off-season, pretty much just because we've never done one before. We'll train new kids and add two more mechanisms to our team knowledge base. Its a valuable process that I encourage other teams to try out (we stole the idea from 971 and 973)
"Steal from the best, invent the rest" is something I've been saying for a long time. I probably stole the quote from someone/somewhere, but its been so long I can't remember
Would it irk people in this thread to know I will sometimes encourage our students to copy designs even if they don't understand everything about the design they mimic?
Our students are some of the brightest kids I've met. I can say with 100% confidence they are 10x the engineer I was when I was a student in FRC. Their communication and technical skills amaze me every year.
If my students don't understand a few things, I won't lose sleep over it. Inspiration is why I'm here.
Regardless, good on you Clint, please share your results! We have some wheel CAD from 2014 on our site (I think!) if you're interested.
-Mike
BTW, funny story. We tried 3D printing some 4" wheels on our makerbot during the first week of build season 2014. Never again! We had Aluminum custom wheels back from our machine shop sponsor by week 3 that year...
Live and learn!