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Originally Posted by trycatch
When trying to do the two robot thing, do you HAVE to have two sets of electronics? ...
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It depends on your reason for having a second robot, and on when you begin training the drive team.
For us in 2016, the second robot was built to enable drive team practice simultaneously with robot improvements -- hardware and software. We built two (almost) identical robots, so that whichever one was closest to our target competition set-up could be used for practice as soon as it reached that point. Then, the other robot was brought up-to-date. Then we started adding the next feature on the priority list. After that was installed and shop-tested, build would swap robots with the drive team, and the cycle would repeat. The same cycle continued whenever we had out-of-bag time (equivalent to Thursday at a Regional).
Here is a shot of the two robots, during a brief interval when both were in the shop.
We got the climber added just before MSC and used it there a couple of times. It was working much better at CMP and IRI.
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