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Originally Posted by Chris Fultz
...can be expensive. However, they last several years and can be re-used.
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Chris covered all of my team's reasons. I just wanted to
+1 his last comment. Although we did not end up using pneumatics in 2016, they were a key part of our development strategy in several previous years. We started using the manifold pictured
here on our 2014 competition robot, and have re-used it several times -- on our 2015 competition robot and on a few off-season projects.
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I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)