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Keep Casters Around
Posted by Matt Leese at 03/22/2001 12:13 PM EST
Other on team #73, Tigerbolt, from Edison Technical HS and Alstom & Fiber Technologies & RIT.
In Reply to: Casters should be banned!
Posted by James Jones on 03/22/2001 11:22 AM EST:
I don't think banning casters would solve the drive train problem. You can use casters very effectively. You can also use casters very badly. Our robot this year has front casters and works just fine. We never have problems getting over the bridge (note: we do have four wheel drive in the back). Getting rid of casters because some teams don't use them well would be like getting rid of the plywood because some teams use it badly (yet another thing we used successfully this year). I think the main thing rookie teams need is more mentoring by veteran teams -- not forcing them into a particular design. If you think that rookies are building bad robots, offer to help out a rookie team. Don't make their job more difficult. Rookies need all the help they can get.
Matt who was never on a rookie team but his team sort of counts this year because they haven't existed since 1998
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