Team Update 14 (2016)

[EricLeifermann]

Originally Posted by Rangel(kf7fdb)

I don't think that's what he meant about secrecy. He is saying that if teams don't think copying is a big deal, why don't the big teams reveal at bag day or even earlier. I'm sure every team has their reasons but if you asked any of the teams you mentioned to explain their designs before they revealed it, I would guess you get a different response.

We don't publicly show our robot, but we show it to our friends on other teams no problem, and that sharing goes both ways for the most part.

We also don't really ever get done in time to have a release video in a "normal" time.

We had the robot fully done in CAD the Saturday before bag day this year. It was assembled as much as possible at 11:50 pm on Bag night. The programmers had it for 5 min to do a quick systems test and then we weighed it and threw it in a bag.

Our release videos are done with our practice robot.