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Re: Gears on the floor?

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Originally Posted by paul.dornfeld View Post
Newer team wishes to know more about FRC Design Rule #4. I haven't come across any FRC Design Rules. Where can I find this reference, please? Your rule #4 makes sense and am wondering about the golden nuggets in the other rules.
It's not even particularly good advice. Sometimes you don't need floor pickup of the primary scoring piece. The example cited by others in this thread is 1503's 2011 robot (In this video they are the red robot closest to the camera at the start of autonomous). Note how they made a simple and elegant mechanism and are able to cycle quickly and effectively. I would say they were a better robot than 99% of other teams. Floor acquisition and delivery to a scoring mechanism is a perennially difficult challenge that can be sidestepped by using the predictably placed hoppers/chutes/etc there are on the field. Of course, it's always better to have than not have, but in the context of the monetary, time, and complexity budgets nixing it is something that is certainly worth considering. Two weeks of driver practice, a working autonomous and fewer bugs is worth more than floor pickup to most teams.

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