The District System

[DELurker]

Originally Posted by Pault

One thing that I have not really heard much about is how the robot unbagging period compares to the Thursday of a regional. Is it bad that you have less time with the robot, or is it better because you are in your shop and free to do it whenever?

It depends on what you have, what you have to do, and what you usually leave behind. In our team's case, we should be doing driver practice, just like would happen in the practice matches. In reality, we're fabbing and mounting the items we developed on our practice bot (can't mount anything not developed during the 6 hours). We do take a little time making sure the competition bot runs similarly to the practice bot.

Without the unbagging time, we wouldn't have ever figured out why our potentiometers have been wonky for several years (300 degrees of turn, 60 degrees of response).