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Re: Practice Robot?
We build one, with identical components to comp bot. Roughly 8 veteran students & equal number of involved rookies last year, 3 highly dedicated mentors. It's expensive to buy a second control system, motors, and wheels, but as long as you're disciplined in making drawings for manufacturing (CAD or pencil...) it's not hard to knock out 2x the custom parts for everything else.
Now that we have "last year's practice bot", we can loot it for a control system and most of the drivetrain for "this year's practice bot".
For our (lack of..) schedule last year it was critical to have the second bot for programming & final adjustments.
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Fun:
Mentor - Team 841 (2015 - ? )
Mentor - Team 4 (2013 - 2014)
Student - Team 192 (2009 - 2010)
Work:
SunPower Systems, Product Engineering - Utility Power Plants (2015 - ? )
BSci, Mechanical Engineering, UCLA (2010-2015)
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