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Originally Posted by Swampdude
All I can say is I hope they stock a lot of extras at the competitions. Our cap system is tearing them up. It's not as much the bot's fault as it is the fact that these things are heavy with a rather weak joint. I don't think they were designed with rapid play in mind. Then to compound that with a couple bots fighting over one, there's going to be a big pile of dead tets after each competition. Or at least those clover things. They need to make metal ones.
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Perhaps you need to rethink your robot design. You have a system that you like, but is "tearing them up." Because your design was breaking the official tetras, you made stronger ones to practice with. However, the tetras are as they are. With the Sterlite bins in Stack Attack, FIRST
intentionally chose a weaker container as part of the challenge. Having custom injection molded parts, and lots of them, made it is unlikely for FIRST to spend a lot of money to redesign the major game piece now.
You don't get to engineer how strong a human chest is, you need to engineer your car to not exceed the loads a chest can take in a car accident. A foot can only take so much energy, you need to design the boot to keep the energy below that threshold.
In FIRST as in life, there are design criteria that can not be changed.
Wetzel