Thread: Team Update #1
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Re: Team Update #1

How incredibly disappointing on so many levels.

Our students were ready to meet the 60" rule head on - they were looking at things like the comparative benefits of elevators vs. various types of multi-jointed arms and everything in between. We even had a long discussion about Peaucellier-Lipkin linkages. Now there is little incentive for doing anything different than what we saw in 2007...

On the minibot topic, I hope that FIRST appreciates that minibot races will now be decided by:

1) Battery voltage.
2) Whoever deploys their robot at 10.1 or 10.2 seconds without the ref seeing/calling it (it's not a fun year to be a ref).

And I'm not even going to touch the political/financial aspect of it all...