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Originally Posted by edisler
After a couple of years, I figured out that in order to be competitive I had to build two robots so that I could keep working on development after the deadline. Of course that means that we are spending twice as much for spare parts(If I can get them, after all, everyone else has to buy parts for two robots) and building 2 robots means that I am having to use our sponsor's shop to build twice as many parts as I really need.
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I disagree, when we build practice bots, we build two identical robots and then remove mechanisms from the practice robot as spares for the main competition robot. This works fine for us. so there isn't actually a lot more fabrication and manufacturing of parts necessary, obviously there is a necessity for more control system parts etc. but you would normally bring spare control system parts to a competition anyway. If you design the robot to be disassembled easily your practice robots mechanism can easily serve as spare parts( within the 30lb withholding)