|
Re: 2010 Lesson Learned: The Negative
The rules on minor protrusions were a bit much this year. Next year I believe that minor protrusions from the frame perimeter should be allowed both inside and outside of the bumper zone as long as they do not pose an entanglement hazard.
The automated system that handled dogma was a bit strange. On at least one occasion I saw an alliance get a dogma penalty while there were no balls in the goals or in the alliance station. Perhaps this was due to a careless human player, but regardless, this should not decide a match.
The classmates need a bit more work, and we need to find a supplier for both replacement classmates and batteries. The IO interface is glitchy at best, and the whole USB power issue shouldn't have happened.
The Field Wifi system could use more refinement, though I will say it is at least 10 times better than it was last year.
Regional inspections should be a bit more harsh especially in earlier Regionals. We made it to the Championship with two bolt heads slightly outside of our frame perimeter that weren't caught at either of our earlier Regionals... I'd move to make the rules a bit more lax, or have the inspectors go through the robots a bit more thoroughly.
(I'll probably come up with a few more)
__________________
-Dustin Benedict
2005-2012 - Student & Mentor FRC 816
2012-2014 - Technical Mentor, 2014 Drive Coach FRC 341
Current - Mentor FRC 2729, FRC 708
|