This one IS big because you’re already familiar with the bot.
Also, there are a lot of fall events that repeat last seasons game to give the new freshmen a taste of what’s to come.
That’s exactly what 3946 did last summer. Well, actually, we practically started over, re-using some of the chassis and cube manipulator, but ditching the climber and scale capability which didn’t work at all. Went from being unselected during the season to being a 3rd place alliance captain and first pick of a finalist alliance two off-season events. The lessons learned from summer 2018 definitely improved the team’s performance in 2019. One of the neat things about iterating on your robot for off-season events is that you again have that deadline and competition to prove what you did well and what you did poorly.
We will focus on improving aspects of the 2019 robot that are likely to be applied to future robots, and not worry about improving game specific mechanisms. We built our first swerve drive in 2019. We considered it successful, but there was plenty of room for improvement (it was driven by 4 mini-CIMs and had no autonomous or drive distance encoders). We are already making improvements in these areas, and will use the “new and improved” version at off-season events. We have no plans to modify our hatch or cargo handlers. In our spare time, we will probably build a shooter.
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