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Originally Posted by EricLeifermann
The big thing that the longer build season would do for us is we would be able to explore more of the "wilder" ideas that come up during brainstorming that we don't think wouldn't work, but sure enough we see a similar idea working on a robot during a competition.
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Yeah, I know what you mean. Every year, almost every robot design we see in competition was suggested by someone on our team at the beginning of build season. The hard part is deciding which of the wild ideas you think will work best, because you really don't have the time to test more than one or two of them.
For example, in 2007 we referred to suction devices as "audible inhalers" until seeing how some of the best robots used them effectively.