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Originally Posted by mtaman02
Heres a question: Of all the teams that have their robots in one piece, Does everything 100% work as if it were day 1 all over again or are some of the robots a big "rusty" - And do you still have a 100% complete OI Setup for each of the working robots?
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Is it sad that at one point we actually had the past 4 years OIs in our closet, although only 2 of those robots still existed? We always build a brand new OI every single year, with the exception of moving a few joysticks (which we can just unplug and put back on previous years if need be). Our robots tend to gradually fall apart; most things stay fine but our pneumatics have a tendancy to fail very quickly after competition (we never tripped a breaker when we actually competed, then the same robot has blown more than 3 just from demos).
I know that the chips were in PBasic, I wasn't sure how the storage space or the processor speed compared to the current ones since when I joined and started programming it was the first year they had the C robot controllers. From what I've heard programming would be a pain (I don't like not having else statements). It sounds like the old controllers would be okay for building something for remote control (a demo/test bot), but would be worthless in sensor prototyping or autonomous testing.
One thing I'm worried about out here that most teams probably don't have to deal with for outside storage is the heat. Outside storage conatiners would get HOT in the summer here (as I'm sure you know we get air temperatures above 110 regularly), plus I don't think our school could find room for it on campus. Is cooled storage easy to find, or is heat something I probably don't need to worry about?
Thank you everyone for all your replies. After this poll, I'm much more confident I'll be able to find more storage space somewhere.