pic: One-day Minibot

[Tom Ore]

Originally Posted by Travis Covington

...We do hesitate, however, to post detailed pictures and designs of things during the current season to both ensure learning takes place...

Studying and understanding successful designs is an excellent way to learn. The students who spent time on their own team's minibot will learn a great deal when they see a design that is much faster than they came up with. They will begin to understand where their thought process was limited and maybe will know a bit more about how to approach the next problem that comes along. The students on our team spent about half the build season working on versions of the minibot with the NXT Brick as part of the minibot! When we got to KC, our minibot was only a 2 second minibot. However, our deploy system works pretty well and we won KC with that 2 second minibot. (Information on our robot including deploy have been on our team's website since the end of the build season so if you're looking for deploy ideas feel free to go there.)