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Originally Posted by ThatHat
I admit that this is not necessarily the best process for FRC, but I vehemently abhor discarding ideas because they are "dumb" or "stupid". I feel that it sends the wrong message and is against the spirit of science and engineering. You can see throughout history that great inventions came from both mundane and fantastical inspirations (velcro, cell phones, among others). It's wrong to scuttle someone else's boat because you don't think it's seaworthy. You probably don't know that what you were seeing will be called a submarine, and you never know what new submerged continent, sunken civilization, or new species they will discover.
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I agree that discarding ideas is a terrible idea. One good example of an idea I wish we hadn't discarding was lifting up the whole robot to push down the bridge instead of using a mechanism to do so. While this wouldn't have worked for the bridge, some notable teams used it as a fast way to get over the bump(254, 971, 111, and I'm sure others). Furthermore it allowed them to keep their bumpers low which has both offensive and defensive advantages.
Some notable robots have been created from out of the box ideas. The 71 2002 robot is utterly dominant from what I have heard(even though I wasn't around at that time. The 469 2010 robot was also very dominant while using a very out of the box idea. Thinking creatively is definitely very important in the brainstorming stage.