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Originally Posted by Rickertsen2
How did you feel about this year's robot?
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I am proud of the robot our team built. It's far from perfect, there's still things to be done or modified. But it can score some points, so we are very happy about that.
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At one point we had 3 differnt people building three seperate designs.
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This sounds like you are a mostly-student-build team. I don't want to reopen the student/mentor role thing again. I'll just say that anything that the students build, you have to be proud of.
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I feel like i have wasted the last 6 weeks of my life after seeing all the other robot pics.
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I see all these amazing machines, and I think, gee, we could'a done that, why not? Why not is because we didn't think of it. FIRST Robotics is not just about building, but also about imagining. And about building on past experience.
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I suppose i should look on the bright side, It was an AWESOME journey to get here.
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In the disappointment over not achieving perfection, we often forget that this is the most important aspect. Not what we did, but how we did it.
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I was really excited about programming this year. I was finally going to have a chance to show off my stuff and mess wiht PID, vision systems etc on a FIRST robot. Well, since our other programmer graduated last year, found that up until 3 days before ship i was soo tied up with mechanical things that i did not write a single line of code.
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I think you are in role that can be particularly disappointing and demoralizing. You the sometimes forgotten last part of the team. They pay no attention to you until you get to competition and your programs don't work. You asked for a week or two with the completed machine, but you got 2 days (if even that). Well, that's how it works in life too. If you are the last part of the process, you get the blame when the project is late, no matter how late the parts upstream from you were - I know that all too well from my job. You need to make up for all the mistakes and failures ahead of you. If you do, well that was what they all expected you to do. If you don't ...
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It all works(in theory ) but i fear we will not get our more than say 6 balls in auto.
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And that's 6 more than many other teams will get.