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Originally posted by KenWittlief
BTW - building the robot itself should only take about 2 weeks of the 6 week program
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*little problem with using the word "should"*
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if you do the first 2 steps in 2 hours, then spend 5.9 weeks building, what you are doing is not engineering.in the real world, bolting, cutting, wiring, and screwing a machine together is something you get a technician to do -
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Ahhhh...is that why on a robotics' team the engineers sit back and watch others scramble like mad men in a "time is of the essence emergency" doing all the technicians work for the remaining 4 weeks.
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all the magic in science and engineering happens between your ears.
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Love that! Don't have that between my ears, but still love that.
I did learn the magic of a technicians work in their hands when my first husband and I owned a machine shop on the bay in Morro Bay. Government changed the fishing rules for salmon fishing, and all the fisherman were going bankrupt, thus our little machine shop servicing them was threatened with bankruptcy. We got piece work from LA to help keep our head afloat. Our only employee made 30 pieces an hour. Then we had to let her go.
My husband taught me to run the lathe and mill. I ran both machines at the same time. I can still fell the rhythm in my hands, arms, body. I made 60 pieces an hour. It was a piece that allowed IV stands to move the bags of meds up and down. We made 2000 pieces a week.
Didn't understand the math, science or engineering.
Morro Bay didn't want to "let" the machine shop go. They owned the land the machine shop was on. Two years of convincing them we needed to sell the machine shop to other than a machine shop owner.
It's a mini mall now. We escaped bankruptcy within moments.