Should we rebuild our robot to be an autonomous container grabber?

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Originally Posted by AdamHeard

30 lbs is enough to remake an entire robot if done right.

Very true. Most teams at champs go to three events, that is 90 pounds. If you were pre-qualified or otherwise confident in your ability to get to Champs, you can strategize by bringing 30 pounds of fabricated items at your first two events with the express purpose of just putting them in the bag after the event is over. You make duplicates of whatever you are fabricating to go in the bags so you can test it while it sits in the bag (likely in your shop). By champs you have 90 pounds worth of assemblies ready to go.

I imagine teams with little raw talent on their team but with high aspirations might even wait a couple weeks to see mechanisms they like, deploy crucial ones to win their regional and qualify for champs, then build the other crucial stuff to split between the bag at their second event and champs.

We actually switched out almost 100% of our robot last year between stop build day and championship Saturday.

(but we still need stop build day, right?)