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Re: Never Do This, and Other Good Ideas Gone Bad
I don't know if the majority of my team would agree with me on this, but here's what I think:
2006: No more turret designs. According to members & alumni, 06 was an all around horrible year, robot and all.
We broke this rule in my first year. (2009) Needless to say, our robot scored once that whole year.
2010: Do not try to stop a pnumatic cylinder halfway. We had a "Bump Mode" that allowed our robot to go over the bumps. To do this, we had to activate our pnumatic kicker, and then immediately bring it back about halfway so that the kicker would clear the surface of the bumps without the kicker breaking the plane of the bumpers. Sounded good in theory, (which, according to a forum regular, is a nice place) but it did not work in the real world.
And the new one for Logomotion: NO MORE BUMPER SKIRTS!!! Those things are horrid.
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Funny, the part of our LV code that looks nice doesn't work, but the code that is so horrid, you can't tell what's going on, works perfectly...
Last edited by Kyler386 : 04-10-2011 at 16:28.
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I have to wrap my brain about a robotics team named Dudettes. I can get there but ... I need coffee. - JaneYoung [more] 
04-10-2011, 16:00
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