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Re: New FTC Platform

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Originally Posted by Daviddavid View Post
I'm much more excited about the wifi possibilities. About metal gears and stuff, why? It's not needed. Why would we want to build FRC-sized bots in FTC, isn't that what FRC is for?
The Field is going to be the same size so you can assume that the robots will be roughly the same size as VEX.

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The reason I got a school to agree to start a vex team next year is because it was small enough to do in the room, they didn't need a machine shop, it was pretty cheap and it was safe for kids to work with. Bigger and stronger robots just moves away from that, which is why I hope FIRST realizes Vex is perfect for classroom use and keeps it.
You aren't going to need a machine shop with the new kit either. I don't see anything in the limited information given to us that would not make this new kits just as easy to use in a classroom.
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