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Originally Posted by Karthik
I want to take this opportunity to thank all the inspectors we worked with over the weekend. On Wednesday we approached Ed Sparks, the Curie LRI, to show him what we had been working on. We wanted to get the inspectors involved in this process as early as possible, so we could get feedback on them to make sure this "Frog and Lily" setup met all robot and safety rules. Later Ed got Al involved, and both were extremely professional and helpful. On Saturday, Frank Merrick came by our pit to give us the final approval on the concept, especially in regards to safety. Once we picked 900 and started integrating into their robot, we had an army of division LRIs who worked with us on the inspection process. Overall I blown away by their level of excellence and focus on the job. I want to thank all of them for creating a "team first" atmosphere. This is what FRC is all about. In the past I've been very vocal about my frustration with processes that are not team friendly, but these folks were the exact opposite of that.
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I can only reiterate exactly what Karthik has said. It was simultaneously one of the toughest and easily the best inspections that I've ever been through. You were all the epitome of gracious professionalism.
At one point, one of you pointed to "1114" written in sharpie on one of the aluminum poles and asked if it was a model number. At the time the joke went over my head but I was thinking back on that on the bus ride home and just cracked up.
And don't worry, next time the mentor who wrote up the BOM in Notepad will have Excel installed. He has been properly admonished for not having a locally installed spreadsheet app. Man cannot survive on Google Docs alone.
Seriously, thank you to all of the inspectors. You were all amazing. Also, a massive thank you to the lady from NI who happened to have the updated driver station software on a flash drive. You are amazing!