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Originally Posted by fuzzy1718
A great example of how a team with a mill is at more of an advantage than those without: Our team this year spent 3 or 4 hrs drilling holes in our lift with a hole saw. How longer would that have taken on a mill, an hour maybe two?
Practicly our entire robot this year was made from hand tools, a drill press welder, and hand drills. We had only 1 or 2 parts in a machine shop, one was to get the gears off our fisher price motors.
Tell me who has the advantage, the team that can do it themselves in an hour or the team who has to send it to a machine shop and wait a day or two?
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A limited budget will force you to think more creatively, and come up with more simple and elegant solutions.
Just look at team 121. You could have built that robot with the tools you just described (as many other teams did
).
Yeah, our team can't make things as fast or as complex as the Cheesy Poofs... And that's why we've never copied the Cheesy Poofs...
There's always an easier/simpler way to do something. You just have to look.