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Re: What do you think of the jaguars?

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Originally Posted by MikeE View Post
One anecdote isn't a statistically significant result in either direction. ....I suspect that a large percentage of the problems reported are due to inexperience with the controllers, not system design or manufacturing problems.
I don't recall saying that it was.

As for the controllers, if the majority of problems caused really are due to user error, wouldn't we see the same types of failures with the victors in rookie teams? I can think of at least 3 rookie teams off hand that have didn't have any problems with Victors this year, and none of the students or mentors had ever used one.


The Jaguars have some neat features, but for the scale of what we are working on (HS Competition Robots) why replace something that's tried and true?
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