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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
thats the thing. Are you allowed to draw mechanical things on a piece of paper before your first day at regionals? to figure out measurements? to make scale drawings? To make a prototype at home to see if it works, then fabricate it over again at the regional?
the problem with SW is that once you write it down (type the code out) you are mostly done.
I dont know about anyone else, but if I have a problem to solve it simmers on the back burner of my brain all the time, and when an answer bubbles to the surface I have to stop what Im doing and write it down. For SW that means writing down an alogrithm, or a bubble diagram, or a flow chart.
The rules forbid this?! you would have to heavily sedate me!  |
I believe you can come up with all the "ideas" that you want. However I don't believe you can actually test them on a robot, and testing is the most time consuming part usually.
I know last year, we wrote notes down on things to come up with for the Regional, however we did not test anything or load it onto any previous robots. At Regionals, we retyped all the code on site, then loaded it there and tested it. I think half of it ended up not working anyway, but we still managed to get some accomplished.