Oh hey there Joe.
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Originally Posted by electron
When I was in FRC, simplicity was key to a solid, competitive robot, as it usually meant fewer things could break, less weight, lower cost, and less time spent designing/testing/building/fixing.
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Well, those last ones are very true for FTC. However, in our experience, just because a robot is more complicated does not mean that it breaks more often. During Worlds our robot only burned a servo. This is because we designed many fail-safe mechanisms and programming safeguards.
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Originally Posted by electron
...or Say Watt, and it seems the word "simple" is not the their vocabulary!
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In FLL, we used the KISS principle. And we would lose.
No matter their age, no matter their generation, every mentor and student must be responsible for their actions, and for understand that compromise and maturity are the paths to team success. - Eugenia Gabrielov [more] 
06-06-2011, 10:53
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