Robot Idea

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Turrets are one of those things that has hypothetical value, but rarely translates into improved performance for a vast majority of teams. While some of the 90-95th percentile of teams can execute them well enough that it can help give them an advantage (without sacrificing robot quality elsewhere) in order to become a 99th percentile team, for the rest of FRC teams, they tend to end up wasting resources and decreasing precision. Like swerve and octocanum drives, turrets are cool, but in terms of on-the-field performance, a majority of teams would be better served by investing their resources elsewhere.


254 would usually just dump the ball out of their rear intake into the low goal in that situation. 67 or 971 would swing their arm around the other way and score into the high goal. Generally speaking, that's a pretty specific scenario, and not worth the added resources to get out of. I'm sure these elite teams would rather focus their focus their programming, debug, and driver practice time on features that will be advantageous the other 99% of the time they're driving around the field.

Yup. Don't add a complicated mechanism to 'fix' a perceived issue which can be mitigated by finishing early and getting driver practice.