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Re: FRC Blog - 2016 Motor Controllers
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Originally Posted by Karthik
This.
If FRC goes back to a game which encourages vigorous interaction similar to that of 2014, expect "we had that match until we browned out!" or "we suddenly stopped moving, I have no idea why" to become a common refrain.
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Many engineers would benefit from watching "Apollo 13" -- with special attention to the intense effort required to develop a critical procedure that satisfied the electric power constraint. When failure was not an option.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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