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Who is building 2 robots
Wildstang has been doing a second practice robot for a few years now for many reasons:
1) Give the drivers lots of practice – As Dr Joe has often said, good driver skills can overcome lots of issues with your robot.
2) Allow the students to really build a robot. We build the practice robot first (as a prototype) from 80-20 extrusions. And the students get to do a lot more work on this one than on the one that gets welded together by our machinist.
3) We try out all the rough concepts on the proto before we solidify the design on the shipped robot. The shipped robot gets built in the last 10 days or so. This is how we get away without doing an entire 3D CAD model of the robot (although, we use to do when we had more mechanical mentor help)
4) It let’s us practice different strategies and robot functions to see how well they work
5) We get to try out different autonomy programs between competitions.
Of course the practice robot usually would not pass inspection and is usually overweight.
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Warning: this reply is just an approximation of what I meant to convey - engineers cannot possibly use just written words to express what they are thinking.
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