How Would You Change Your Robot

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30-04-2014, 22:26

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Re: How Would You Change Your Robot

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Originally Posted by Max Boord

We did. We regretted. You shouldn't.

Singles speed was just fine. 18fps, probably not. I think in a lot of cases it's more important to design for acceleration and time to distance than it is max speed.

For us: actually build two full robots. We swapped the manipulator arm every regional and it hurt our practice time and introduced more troubleshooting that was necessary. Would have been better to do it all the way (like we intended starting off).

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