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Originally Posted by Hitchhiker 42
A lot of teams do a second practice robot. Our team hasn't done one yet, but we want to this year. Is there any advice you'd give to a lower-budget team on doing this?
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Use the kitbot and buy a second kitbot. Now you have a practice robot.
Build your scoring mechanisms you want to tune under the withholding limit. Then move that from comp bot kitbot to practice bot kitbot between events.
If you want to do practice robot on a budget, this is a great way to do it.
To OP:
Our robot programmers generally get the first robot at day 30 of Build Season. They almost always have one practice robot available during the Competition Season. They get two full robots for at least a few weeks during competition season. Often, one of the two practice robots is stolen by mechanical to fix items or test modifications.
-Mike