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Re: pic: Week 3 Update

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Originally Posted by nickbrickmaster View Post
"Not sure if that robot is legal, but it sure is a good boy."
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Originally Posted by ollien View Post
Let's see...
  • ✓ An electromechanical assembly (Nerve endings transmit electric signals, and I would certainly call dog movement mechanical)
  • ✓ Built by the FIRST® Robotics Competition Team to perform specific tasks when competing in FIRST® STEAMWORKS. (Dog is a COTS item, and training has made an impression on the mind of the dog. Thus, the dog has been built by the team.)
  • 1/2 ✓ The ROBOT must include all of the basic systems required to be an active participant in the game – power, communications, control, BUMPERS, and movement. (Slap some bumpers and a control system on there and you're ready to go!)
  • ✓ The ROBOT implementation must obviously follow a design approach intended to play FIRST STEAMWORKS (See photo)
So far, so good. However,

<R01> This robot appears to have an articulated frame perimeter. Shouldn't be too hard to find a work around, though. Make a frame from the 4 pieces of 1" square tube that came in the KoP ...

The more serious issue is:

<R11> This robot is priceless, no doubt!

I think you're headed back to the drawing board.
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I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
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