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Originally Posted by eugenebrooks
I think that Jack has it right here.
Sensible engineers do not design from first principles on every project they work on. They stand on and re-use the fruits of earlier design activities.
...It could, in fact, be the case that we get to chip our robots out of stone this year. That could be fun...
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You have it exactly right! We dont have time to teach HS students about boring FIRST principles: Mass, acceleration, force, energy, impulse, power, torque, metal fatigue, shear stress
when we can re use the work of someone else who already did all that hard math stuff for us 8 years ago
no time to waste, there are giant plastic trophies at stake here!