what makes a good robot

[Daniel Brim]

Originally posted by George1083
Stay away from casters. they only cause headaches.

Wow, I hear that. Casters can cause a pain and a distraction. Try to stay away from them, especially if there is a ramp. If there is a ramp, casters will not steer you consistantly. This also adds a variable in autonomous, because the caster placement will be different each time. Team 294 had a huge headache trying to fix our drive system, and casters were the main problems. We could not get up the ramp, and when we tried, we would pop our breakers. The solution: lock them in place. During the Thursday rounds at the LA regional, we locked our casters in place, and combined in qualifying matches and elim matches, we lost one match we were in, as opposed to going 2-9 in AZ.