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Originally Posted by Stu Bloom
... and I know you guys had an awesome robot this year, Midwest Champions AND Regional Chairman's, AND WI Champions! Congratulations on your success! You must be doing something right ...
But I have to wonder ... are we forgetting about the science and technical INSPIRATION, and just rushing to build a robot as fast as possible? I just dont understand how, even working long hours every day the first week, anyone could get through a reasonable engineering/design process and have something built that quickly. Maybe I need to rotate through some other teams over the next couple of years to undetstand how that happens ...
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We did go through our process, just this time their was alot less arguing and everyone immediately came to a consensus on the sunday after kickoff (unheard of).
We try to focus as much as possible on teaching members outside of the build season to have them as prepared as possible to hit the ground running.
plus having 2 welded frames doesnt say too much as we quickly chose to go straight for a simple wide 4wd with toughboxes, nothing fancy (as opposed to a crab)
lots of what Art said applies
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Originally Posted by rc_cola1323
That is awesome Aren, we applied for three grants for another CNC. We plan to make two frames next year. One practice bot and is CNC'd (freshman training and protoing it) and the other for real.
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Manual mill and bandsaw ftw
didnt even waterjet anything this year i believe, so no cnc whatsoever