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Re: Has any team or anybody made a 80% - 100% lexan bot?
I have great respect for all the people to commit their time to FIRST and I have respect for the work they accomplish. That is in no way mutually exclusive to these same people not doing perfect work and having "significant design errors" (would we even be talking about any other kind of design error?).
When I was talking about design errors, I was referring to different requirements then you were. Not the requirements that are set by teams for themselves (the best teams probably nail all of these requirements consistently), but the requirements of the job. The requirement is simple: make a robot that wins. If it was possible to make a more robust robot, or save enough weight to add an aditional useful mechanism, etc, then I don't think the design was "correct". (I'm not speaking about the more general design as it is very complex to analyze wether a ball herder is better than a ball carrier or wether a hanging mechanism is worth the weight, etc, etc.)
The only thing I have been saying is that a very common design mistake is a bad choice in materials. As Mr. Baker pointed out very nicely, and as I didn't and don't disagree with, certain materials do have unique properties that aren't encompassed by the single number I was using for analysis.
If I have offended anyone, I apologize, but nothing was meant to be offensive, and I hope I have explained my intentions to you. This thread has gone way off topic, so if you really wish to continue this discussion, perhaps do it in private.
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Last edited by Max Lobovsky : 14-12-2004 at 10:11.
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