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Originally Posted by Levin571
Can this reusing also act as a hinderance sometimes since the teams fail to accept new ideas that may be better?
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My team was running into that problem some this year. We have no seniors on the team, so all of the leaders are juniors. We were heading up the different design groups, and everything we came up with eneded up being exactly what was on our robot from 2005. We sat down and talked about why this was happening as a team, and we got some team alumni in on the discussion too. we realized that we get only 1 robot a year, the one we make during build season, so you need to get out of your comfort zone and go for whatever. We reworked the design and now we have a unique robot, that will be a challenge to build and is very different from anything weve done in the past, and everyone is very happy with it.
What im getting at is, what is the point of being a consistently good robot year after year if it is just the same robot year after year. sure you might have had a good thing going for a while, but you need to experiment a bit and go wild to keep on the cutting edge. innovation happens not when you improove existing designs, but when you do something completely different that works better than you imagined.