[Kris Verdeyen]

The point is not that no one is forcing people to read the strategies, it's that no one is forcing people to POST the strategies. If someone wants their idea secret, it's a very simple process to not post the idea, but I think that those with the benefit of experience are doing a good service by posting their ideas.

How many "remember the puck" statements are in this board? A rookie, thinking that there's no way a robot could pull the three goals, couldn't "remember the puck" because he (and I) have no idea what the puck is. The point is that the ideas posted are not good designs in themselves, but means for those with more experience to help other teams come by good designs. Which is a graciously professional way to act. Does that mean that you're thumbing your nose at GP by not contributing? No.

Your engineering professor is right to say that you need to struggle with the problem. But struggling with a problem does not mean beating your head against the wall of a labratory. It means first of all, go to the library, see what others have done, and then come back and beat your head against the wall of the labratory. This forum is simply the library.

And finally, if the Technocats had posted their code, people would have used it. (Of course, by the time everyone's seen how well it works, it's too late.) But no one is posting code, or Autocad drawings, or electrical schematics. The Techocats would have posted "How's about we use the gyro to balance the bridge." And everyone would have had to decide on their own whether that was what they wanted to do.