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Re: [FRC Blog] Veteran Team Drive Base Option and Registration Progress

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Originally Posted by Cothron Theiss View Post
I really wish we had put together the KOP chassis and immediately started driving on defenses in the first few days after kick-off. We severely over-estimated the defenses, and didn't adjust our design in time to increase our scoring capabilities. Driving a little bit early on might have shown us that getting over the B and D defenses was not the monumental task we thought it was at first.
Even if you don't have the code stuff up and running yet, 125 did a lot of testing with a plywood base, an old PDB, and some vic 884s controlled with a cheap 4 channel hobby receiver and a transmitter I had sitting around. Instead of going through a lot of revisions with "precision" methods to find what was catching on defenses simply drive over, if it gets stuck cut it off with a hack saw.
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