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Re: pic: A little more standard

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Originally Posted by M. Krass View Post
Without speaking about this design, particularly, I think it's worth mentioning that plenty of teams have had many, many successful seasons without building robots "like tanks." There's a thing or two to be said about graceful design and engineering and intelligently discerning which parts, assemblies and systems need to be more or less robust than others.
While this is true, that "intelligent decerning" tends to turn into "it's not fair that you play defense that hard".

I don't want to turn this into a "tanks vs miracle machine" debate. I just want to point out that you have to understand the strengths and weaknesses (yes they all have weaknesses) of your robot, and prepare to deal with those.

//back on topic

I'd love to see that drivetrain in action.
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