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Re: Team Update #1
Meh.
Despite the new 84" dimension cylinder, there are still incentives for teams to build compact arms. Like not having it spectacularly ripped off in a collision, for one. We probably won't significantly change our arm design. Maybe the gripper, if it's beneficial.
I've never really liked the FTC kit. My team tried FTC as an exercise in 2008/2009 before the FRC season started. None of the components fit together particularly well, and I can never get pieces to line up or attach in a sturdy fashion. The whole system seems limiting, since there are only a number of ways to attach things like wheels and gears, which subsequently never fit where I want them too. For some reason I never have this problem with Legos.
In our brainstorming sessions, my team never seriously considered taking the launching minibot route. One of our mentors proposed it, and everyone chuckled as we thought of pneumatically firing the FTC battery pack into the sensor (so as to be entirely legal, of course). We expected that particular loophole to be closed in the first update, as has clearly happened.
Under this update, could a minibot use the battery pack and motors but not the NXT? I assume this to be the "associated, appropriate circuity" in <G19>. Forgive me if this question has already been beaten to death in Minibot Thread #41.
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