Inspiration, Ideation & Copying

[Trey178]

Originally Posted by MrForbes

The best idea on our robot this year came from another part of the robot...it just took a brilliant mind to point out that it was the "obvious" solution for a different problem, too.

I know the feeling, at least my team does. Our ball launcher this year, though not based on any Ri3D design, was inspired from our 2010 robot. IT used a 2 stage shooter to kick the soccer balls and, from what I heard, it went off like a bullet.