Week 1 Analysis

[mrnoble]

Originally Posted by Akash Shah

During our time at our first competition, we broke several things such as very expensive pneumatic cylinders, pickup system, and bearings from other robots ramming into us and using there pickup as an attack

Watched you carrying your bot, like a Greek Hero fallen on the field of battle. It was inspiring. Congrats on your awards today, by the way!

We made a weird choice this year, and decided that minimal weight, rather than the 120 lbs, was ideal. We not only felt like moving quickly (to get away from defense and collisions) was the way to go, but that having more mass would make it more likely that we would absorb collisions, rather than bounce away from them.

Even so, we might be replacing some of our frame tubing with thicker stuff, depending on how early rounds go in Utah. Here's hoping that things smooth out before then...