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Originally Posted by SenorZ
Once robotics becomes an exercise in linguistics and semantics, we've lost our way.
Instead of saying, "Hmmm, having my robot climb a rope is a challenge. Lets see if we can do that."
While there's nothing wrong with this, technically, it is not in the "spirit" of the challenge.
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While I would agree that there is a point of bending the rules too far, I think that encouraging students to think outside the box is very much in the spirit of an engineering challenge. A lot of good engineering comes from saying "but what if?" and challenging a conventional assumption.
I would never have thought of using Velcro if you had left me to my own devices.