Recent Kit Base Performance

[GreyingJay]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

In 2014 (Aerial Assault)

Tee-hee

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

In 2016 (Stronghold), we opted out of the AM14U3, but purchased two AM14U2's before the season, realizing that almost any design we were likely to build could be adapted from the KoP chassis faster than we could do it ourselves.

This was a clever move, and assuming you got them when they were about half price, represents considerable savings. When I first heard about what you did, I started paying attention to the AndyMark deals and sure enough during the Christmas holidays there was a Tuesday deal on the AM14U2. We hemmed and hawed about whether there would be a risk that the AM14U3 would be different enough from the AM14U2 that designing two "identical" robots from them would be tricky. In the end we went for it (I placed the order 15 minutes before midnight on Tuesday!) Sure enough there were minor differences in the hole patterns, gear ratio, and the wheels, but for the cost and time savings we were happy to work around that.