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Re: Team Update #18

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Originally Posted by Cory View Post
Or FIRST should fix their system. Why should the customer fix a part that came to them out of spec? We are paying for something and if FIRST doesn't deliver the onus should be on them to fix the problem, not on us to work around their broken implementation.
Nominal measurements, nominal specs, last-minute changes to fix last-minute problems... These are common in FIRST, have been common in FIRST at least as far back as when I started 827 and got crushed by 254 at the Silicon Valley Regional.

Some level of overengineering, and not engineering things too close to your target, is required all the time, methinks.
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