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Originally Posted by Jared341
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...
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Yep. There are going to a be a TON of hard feelings this year when a robot clearly deploys a half second early and the refs miss it. Wouldn't it be a travesty if Einstein was decided that way?