My wish? make the BuildBlitzs/RobotIn3Days projects go away...

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Originally Posted by uggmun

It wasn't exactly a rant towards the Ri3D program as it was towards my team's rationale.



Not exactly, what they picked was "safe". I would understand copying an Ri3D robot if you're a first year rookie team, but our team has had two robotics competitions under its belt. If we are going to advance beyond our current position, we need to innovate beyond rescaling Ri3D designs to fit on our chassis. We've had plenty of innovative designs suggested within the team. The problem is that my team fears taking risks, so we take the "safe" route.

I'm not on your team, so I don't know that much about the exact situation, but have you ever tried looking at it from their point of view. You say that your team "fears taking risks," but maybe they see it as "building within our resources," or "keeping it simple," or "maximizing driving and tweaking time." Like I said, I'm don't know your team, so maybe you really do have the capacity to build some crazy awesome robot. But maybe your team thinks that they don't, and that's why they want to stick with something they know will work. I definitely believe that there are many veteran teams who don't have the capabilities to build more than a Ri3D/BB bot.