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Re: pic: FRC488 - Xbot 2009 - IX

A phrase I hate hearing...

"But...it worked in Inventor!"
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Re: pic: FRC488 - Xbot 2009 - IX

That looks very similar to what's sitting in our shop right now.....and even more uncanny we just decided to change our design last week. Our students are now getting a lesson in engineering on the fly!
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Re: pic: FRC488 - Xbot 2009 - IX

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That looks very similar to what's sitting in our shop right now.....and even more uncanny we just decided to change our design last week. Our students are now getting a lesson in engineering on the fly!
Great stuff!
Our team emphasizes the "continuous improvement", "design is an iterative process", "engineering is all about problem solving" type build season. It is a lot of fun and turns out a good product.

I feel proud when you can ask a student "so is it good enough?" and they'll respond with a laundry list of things that we could try and experiment with to improve it. It does make those control guys kinda antsy though.

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Re: pic: FRC488 - Xbot 2009 - IX

The story sounds familar. 2 weekends ago we realized our orginal structure wasn't going to cut it. Hence, last week Monday we nearly started over with our design. After a week of hard work, we finished up our CAD this past weekend. Now, I quiver every time I open up our rev 1 design.
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Re: pic: FRC488 - Xbot 2009 - IX

Thanks for sharing the comments on the "decided to redesign". For a while I was thinking that we were behind schedule on build, seeing as how we have a frame, 1.5 "drive modules", a control board awaiting wiring and a vague untested idea of how we are going to move balls around as of Feb.4.... however I can take solace in the fact that we "decided to redesign" our scoring mechanism two weeks ago when we realized that our beautiful pan/tilt shooter that we initially planned was going to go beyond what this year's team is capable of producing.

Fortunately we've been following a fairly "modular" design process this year, so the scoring mechanism is essentially a "bolt on" to the rest of the robot and... if need be, could be part of the 40 pounds of parts we bring to Seattle with us.... but it would be really nice to have everything together for testing at some point before March 26th!

Good luck with the rebuild, you aren't the only ones iterating!

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Re: pic: FRC488 - Xbot 2009 - IX

Looks strikingly similar to our design this year, I think we will soon discover this type of robot to be one of the "staples" at every competition. Are you using toughboxes or customs for the drivetrain? I hope the next two weeks goes smoothly for you, post some pictures of the finished work please!
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Re: pic: FRC488 - Xbot 2009 - IX

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It does make those control guys kinda antsy though.

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We are always trying to improve....As far as the control guys go they're cool with any changes we make as long as we don't make em cut up their control board
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