Robot in 3 Days 2017

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Originally Posted by tjwolter

"So either teams are too proud to just copy Ri3D and hone their reliability and driver skill to field a competitive robot, or teams aren't able to translate the design they see in a video into an equally competitive robot."

Umm...how much would a young team learn by just copying an admittedly cool robot? We are supposed to be training Engineers not RetroEngineers. Or strictly speaking, just well trained Robot Jockeys.

As a mentor I would be much happier with a crazy, innovative but ultimately less or even unsuccessful design.

T. Wolter

there is a bunch to be learned from ri3d !! even if it is a "copy" the way certain gear boxes work, pneumatics, sensors, the list goes on. I mean depending how much exposure the "young team" has had they may not know about all the hardware and such that is available from places like andymark and vex.

i mean lets be honest here the rookie kop gives you just about enough to get in trouble and not much more.