[fast frank]

we at team 271 are always working on our robot at competitions, whether its drilling holes for weight reduction, changing motors, replacing broken pins/shafts, finding and fixing holes in the pneumatics, tweaking the program, replacing broken speed controllers, we have practically rebuilt the whole thing in the pits, part by part. we have not changed the entire design, however we have made modifications to certain parts. we have never missed a match. we usually just get it to the point where it can function and then do major repairs later. for example, we broke acouple of motors and shafts at mayhem and we didn't have enough time between matches to fix them, so we simply disconnected the chains and ran on the other motors. this was one of the reasons we chose the multi-motor drive system.

we did add our tether device after the qualification matches at UTC, it was already prebuilt. we actually built it at the bigging of the 6 weeks, but then we found out we couldn't use tape measures so we put it on the shelf, then they said we could use tape measures, so off of the shelf and onto the robot it went.