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Originally Posted by smartkid
FTC, just no... You cannot build anything smaller than the U pieces that are about 1.5" x 1.5."'
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Sorry, wrong! Our arm was based on a single angle piece. That one piece was used to support the entire structure of our puck grabbing assembly (three servos and two pieces of polycarbonate). That one piece is strong enough to lift the entire robot - it is 16mm on a side (.64").
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Originally Posted by smartkid
ON THE COST ISSUE: ALL of the established teams before this year had to spend a great deal on Vex parts which they should still have.
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And VEX also has their own competitions - in which all of those teams are welcome to compete.
- By the way, the people I've talked to all agree that the fact that you can still use the structural parts of the VEX equipment negates most of the "additional cost" issue. I will say that what our team found out (we are new, paid the full price for the kit - and then bought some VEX parts for certain things) was that the VEX parts were inferior in quality to the Tetrix parts. The Tetrix parts didn't need the same reinforcement as we saw in previous years because the stuff is simply better!
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Originally Posted by smartkid
FIRST destroyed FTC and I am very disappointed.
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FIRST
changed FTC. Yes change can be painful, but in this case, change causes the requirements for innovation.
Alan