Thread: Does collaboration do good and evil?
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Unread 03-04-2006, 09:31
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Re: Does collaboration do good and evil?
I dont have any problem with teams collaborating, but I would have a problem with a team getting a technical award for a part of the robot that their team did not design.

No matter how well you can explain how it works, its a design award, not a technical understanding award. Should a team get a design award if they can explain how the IFI operator interface and robot controller work?

The company I presently work for has 4 electrical and 2 software engineers. We contract our mechanical designs out. I would love to have our company sponsor a FIRST team. If we do we will be very strong in sensors and control and SW, but we would either have to use the KOP drivetrain, or collaborate with another team that has mechanical engineering resources and a machine shop.

Thats really the root idea of collaboration, not that two teams join to form one super team, but that two teams with limited resources work together to complement each others strengths, and to fill in the areas the other team is lacking.
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