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Re: paper: Stop the Stop Build

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Originally Posted by Karthik View Post
Yes. For the following reasons:
3. Wear and tear. Our competition robot is usually at the end of its life span by the end of Championship. Our practice robot always in much worse shape than the competition robot. I can't imagine putting that many hours of drive time into one robot.

orrrrrrrrrr get rid of 120lb weight limit so parts can be designed for infinite fatigue life and still be viable?
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