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Originally Posted by animater31405
Ok. Now I have to make you look at the flip side. The cost, weight, power, and size of the robot are HUGE factors if you want to make a device like this especially the height issue. Not to mention how easy it is to break that. And, you may have a problem if you want to get the 50 points there for the taking. It's a good startegy if your robot is not able to do anything else for about a minute in the match.
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now you are jumping from the big WHAT (should our robot do) to the big HOW (will the robot do that)
funny thing about engineering - the biggest mistakes are often not going after the best WHAT - taking on the best concept and finding a way.
I promise you - there will be bots at the events that find a way to catch every ball before it touches the floor - because they will focus on that, they will keep at it till an elegant solution pops into their mind at 3AM - and when you see it your jaw will hit the floor and you will spontainously say "Why didnt we think of that!"
Why - cause you gave up on it too soon - the solution didnt come to you in 30 minutes or less, so you thought it was too: hard, complicated, expensive...
Once you have the best answer to WHAT your robot should do, its time to start kissing frogs - keep thinking up possible solutions - most of them will be frogs - but sooner or later you will kiss one and it will turn into a beautiful thing.
Anything worthwhile takes a little time!