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Re: Never Do This, and Other Good Ideas Gone Bad
Every year we seem to have to relearn the same lesson: Don't engineer things too closely.
If something works but *barely* works at home (meaning that it might be fantastic, but the tolerances are very tiny), the Unmutable Laws of The Universe dictate that it will NOT work at competition.
In other words: All values are nominal values, even if they aren't nominal values.
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Patrick Freivald -- Mentor
Team 1551
"The Grapes of Wrath"
Bausch & Lomb, PTC Corporation, and Naples High School
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