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Originally Posted by BHS_STopping
You cannot believe how shocked we all were when we ended up *WINNING* the 2006 UC David Regional competition. After some experience in Arizona with exploding rollers and bent frame members, we managed to pull together and succeed in our second event. Not only that, but we were the 3rd picking alliance! And it was through our team unity (and a VERY lengthy scouting meeting) that we selected two machines which perfectly complemented our robot. To this day, that will always be my favorite FIRST experience. |
I can't resist... We so thought we had you guys beat that year at Davis. Lesson learned... always hot glue pwm cables in so that don't wiggle out. (And outback treads can result in massive amounts of current draw that will eventually melt wires)
Back to the topic... This year we spent several weeks building a complex springloaded kicker mechanism (which kinda worked) only to abandon it in favor of a kicker driven by a toughbox that we put together in just one day. So incredibly simple, I wished we could have some of that time back. There are some very elegant solutions to problems, but way to often the best solution is just a simple one.