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Originally Posted by GB330033
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Donut: No, this does not have to be used to purchase tools. The two accounts are dedicated to "Building Supplies" and "Computer Supplies." I suppose we could go for sensors, but in the three years that the team has been competing, our first time to use a sensor was in the elimination rounds this year, and that didn't turn out well...
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I snipped because I'm only addressing that section of the reply.
If your sensor experiences didn't go well, that's all the more reason to do this! Once you figure out most sensors, they're pretty straightforward and you can find a myriad of uses for a good sensor grouping, get some high resolution stuff, stockpile it too, nothings worse than having a sensor-dependent function that doesn't have a spare sensor when the first one goes bad
Buy scrap material, lots of it, of all kinds to have around, no such thing as too much. Having plenty of stuff to be able to build simple things quickly is great for teaching with. What about welding equipment?
Ok, so perhaps I addressed more than the sensor thing, what can I say?
Extra stuff is great for teaching members things though, you don't have to worry about waste as much, so the inevitable mistakes you make as you go aren't a problem, and you learn that much more.