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Originally Posted by Adam Y.
Yeah but all I know from that site is that it is an organization that makes standards.  As an engineer how much do you follow the above is what I am asking? |
If you want to buy from someone else, sell to someone else or interoperate with someone else, then you need to follow standards. Additionally, standards make it easier for a team of people to work on a project. Why does FIRST spell out the rules for wiring the electronics in your robot? They are following a standard so that your robot can be inspected to insure it is safe. Electricity doesn't care if the wire color is red or black, but when you need to try to figure out why something is not working, would you rather have wiring that follows the standard, or try and troubleshoot an electrical system where the person who wired it did not wire red to (+) and black to (-).