Thread: Question of the Week!!! (10/11/04)
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Re: Question of the Week!!! (10/11/04)
Break it early

The sooner you try your design out, the sooner you can find the faults and the weak points. While breaking things during week 4 is disheartening, breaking things during a regional is a nightmare. It is easy to recover after a week 4 breakage. Recovering between elimination matches is tough.

Design it. Break it. Fix the design. Repeat until the design is right. In FIRST, the earlier you start this process, the better your design will be.

Andy B.
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