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Originally Posted by Retired Starman
FIRST can set whatever specifications it wants. They are our "customer." It is our job to design the robot to meet those specifications, not question them . . . or fuss about them!
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I feel exactly the same way. After one whole summer (*gasp*) at Applied Materials as part of the IISME program in Silicon Valley, I'd learned very thoroughly that a spec is a spec is a spec, and to get over the fact that there might be a better way -- the customer already paid people to come up with the specs, and won't be interested in revisiting the discussion.
Remembering that a spec is a spec is a spec is how I manage to not go insane on a daily basis at the NYS Education regs or the Regents Physics curriculum.
...and we proudly displayed a shiny 'AndyMark' sticker on our air tanks throughout competition, and nobody commented one way or the other about it.