Building two bots

[Alex.q]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Why stop at two?

Mostly for my team this year, money was the limiting factor. We have nearly 80 kids on the team now (I think this may include the FTC kids too though), so we have subteams on drivetrain, 2 subteams on frisbee manipulators, and 2 subteams on climbing manipulators. Each manipulator group will prototype a different type of mechanism, (linear vs circular shooter and 1st tier vs 3rd tier climber) and when they finish, they will decide which work best and redesign and build for version 2. This is the first year where we have had teams competing against each other for the design, so I'm not sure how it will work out. I think their original goal was to have 3 robots, but we just didn't have the budget.