2012 FRC Team 1717 Uncut

[Mark Sheridan]

Those were some amazing videos. I absolute love this robot. Its just so original and ingenious. I also have the honor to be on the receiving end of that 30 second end game.

What would be really cool is a tour video of Dos Pueblo's new engineering academy building. The New Cool showed how hard everyone was fighting for it. It would be nice to see the fruit of that labor. Judging from background of the videos, it was a happy ending. Plus, I know my team's school is curious about Dos Pueblo's engineering program.

In regards to releasing the CAD, their mentors told me the Swerve drive alone took 5 students and 5 mentors over 2000 hours to create. I think its perfectly fine if 1717 does not want to release their CAD. They worked so hard and learned so much. I think the journey is the greater reward. I think its great that some teams release their CAD but its ok for a team to not want to. sometimes things are too precious to share. Besides maybe its better to share the journey than the reward.

In that regards, I would like the thank 1717 (and 973 too) for inspiring my team to explore swerve drive as a summer project. We are in the project feasibility phase, we know there is no guarantee of success. Even if we don't make it out of the feasibility phase, I am pretty sure my students will learn a lot.