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Unread 26-11-2012, 23:51
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Re: Be afraid... Be VERY Afraid

I spend my free time making crazy designs like this in CAD, as such I enjoy seeing these designs whenever I get the chance.

From my personal experience. It always sucks when people criticize a design a lot. I would advise you to hear it as trying to help, rather than that the design is bad or not worth pursuing. You should still listen to most of what has been said, but I think giving up on this design would be a real shame. I know of at least one instance where a company shot down an idea in a brainstorming session, and a number of years later made that one idea the most important distinguishing feature of their technology (and it still is to this day).

In my opinion FIRST would be much cooler if more teams were trying these crazy new designs, rather than just making another WCD and doing stuff purely because "its what the Einstein teams do". I hate hearing people say that a team shouldn't do something because no teams on Einstein used it. Reasons a team should use or not use those designs would be that they are what works for that team and because they would be the most effective for that challenge, not because some other really good team has done it or, the other extreme, no one else has done it.

These types of out-of-the-box designs are always fun/inspirational to design and look at. I found this design inspirational and it is a beautiful CAD model.
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Last edited by Garret : 27-11-2012 at 00:21. Reason: clarifying