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Originally Posted by Holtzman
Excuse the off-topic nature of this post, but I feel it needs to be said… again
Sanddrag
You take every possible opportunity to plug your own drive train. I know I speak for many members of the CD community when I say we are getting a little tired of hearing about it. You built a 6 motor shifter… congratulations. Your design was elegant and very robust, but adding an extra motor in your drive train doesn’t make your robot all-powerful. Try to set an example for the students reading CD and stop bragging about your own drive train. |
Things like this I don't just "excuse." Maybe you should "set an example for the students reading CD" and not publicly call someone out as you have in your above post.
But since we've already crossed that threshold, why stop now. (hold on to your seat belts ladies and gentlemen.
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I have every right to plug my own team's drivetrain any chance I get. Just as you have every right to ignore all my "bragging" about the HexaMax.
And actually adding another two motors in the drivetrain does make the robot all-powerful. I am unaware of any robot as powerful as this one this past year.
I try to set an example by sharing my knowledge and expertise with unique systems like the HexaMax. There are teams who would have never attempted building a shifting transmission until they saw ours, and I showed them how it works. So, THAT is how I set an example, not by bragging. I don't come on here for my afternoon cheap thrills; I come on here to help people, and to inspire people, and occassionally get the reverse for myself. If my methods haven't worked for you, I'm quite sorry.
Do you know how many people don't even know that FIRST offers scholarships? Probably a similar number of people don't know that they ARE capable of building something really cool like a shifting transmission. The more exposure to it they get, the more comfortable with it they will become. It is all about exposure. In my mentions of the HexaMax, I intend not to flaunt it as the greatest drive system ever in FIRST. Clearly it is not. I use it to "raise the bar" for all the other teams. Why did we build a 6 motor drive? Because we knew no one else would. Simple as that. Now it has been done, and it has been refined. So maybe next year, there will be multiple teams that do so. I now leave it up to other teams to take it above and beyond. A six motor shifting crab drive, a six motor 3 speed, a six motor shifting walking robot, a 6 motor drive that weighs 12lbs, heck, I don't know. But I believe my design inspires others to strive for more (as we had) in their future designs.
Now, as for the credibility of Holtzman's post, I remind you that it comes from someone that chose to buy a gearbox instead of building one. Not that their's anything wrong with that; it is a quite strategic decision. However, it does make for an interesting conversation point in the sense that I don't think buying a gearbox as opposed to building one provides anything to brag about. This is where our two teams differ. We have a drivetrain that is worthy of bragging about whereas I believe they do not.