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Originally Posted by Drew
What are they, You have been seeing them all over the competitions. Numerous bots that are exactly the same in everyway but one or two zip ties... Why is this, It kind of seems unfair. There is no creativity in these bots but the original designs......Now im sorry if i am seeming angry or mean but i tell you that i am not. Im just curious .....
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Hey Drew,
I've been doing our team's photo/video at two regionals thus far (Finger Lakes & Boston) and agree that there are some robots with "similar" designs. I've been especially impressed with those bots that use vertical corkscrew ball elevators.
Since FIRST is really NOT a corporate-spying event, I fully embrace idea-sharing and design-stealing. It's not the bot itself that will win, it's much more in the learning process as well as the inter-team alliance-selection process.
So, even if there was 100 identical robots, I'll bet you than one of those teams will forget a zip-tie and their battery will die, or one of them will get pinned, etc.
So, let the designs fall-out where they may. In fact, I'd love to see a design book each year outlining the major "themes" of designs (e.g sweepers, elevators, corkscrews, 2-ball shooters, etc)