Team Update 14 (2016)

[Michael Corsetto]

Originally Posted by ChuckDickerson

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Chuck,

Thank you so much for sharing your team's experience this season. I love the modular approach. I'm sure your students are learning a ton from the experience this season, for us it's been like managing a small production line!

We elected to not bag two of our three robots. Too much code, practice and iteration to do over the next two months for just one robot. We didn't get a picture with all three out of the bag, which was definitely a mistake!

Regarding the withholding allowance:

Even if withholding allowance was gone, we would find ways to make the parts we need at the event within the allowable rules (we could bring in copies of each part and match drill all holes at the event to be within the zero withholding allowance rule).

Question for the group:

There used to be a clause in the rules about bringing in "functionally equivalent parts" or something like that. This allowed teams to have spares of parts in their pit without gaining a significant advantage. Anyone know why that rule isn't around anymore? These last couple of years I wished we could bring spares in, it would make me a whole lot less nervous about our robot snapping in half!

-Mike