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Re: Should teams be pushed to make higher quality robots?
You guys are getting too hung up on visual meaning "nicely painted" as opposed to "not canned together." One of our favorite sayiongs is "you can't just put a bearing in and ship it." The point, "git er done" but do it right.
More importantly, aluminum polish is surprisingly cheap (a couple of dollars for a whole tube) and it gives the freshman something to do.
There is no reason why so many robots need to look like overgrown erector sets, especially from teams with 3 digit numbers.
Furthermore, as I have stated earlier, a good design is one where the function dictates a form that is clean by itslef and that does not need to be covered.
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Last edited by Karthik : 10-20-2005 at 12:56 AM.
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