Here's the problem with the minibot

[pfreivald]

Uhhh, FIRST's challenge is about building robots that perform better than everyone else's robots, not just building robots that can perform a task *at all*.

....and while we don't have a 1.4 second minibot, we have a 1.8 second minibot, and with the FIRST Choice program we spent a total of about $80, $60 of which was on spare motors we didn't need.

Would it have cost us a lot more to optimize out that extra half-second? Perhaps. Perhaps not, if we fused things properly so we weren't smoking the inductors in the motors during our experimentation.

A lot of sound and fury, methinks, has accompanied the poor, maligned minibot this year.