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Unread 19-01-2007, 02:39
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Re: POLL: Will you be using a scoring aid?

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Originally Posted by Cody Carey View Post
I guess it fits in with the "I don't know" option, but I forgot to add it.


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Using a palm pilot doesn't automatically make your coach have 60 less I.Q. points, he will still be able to do the same things he would without it, it is just a useful tool; like a calculator, or the cotton gin.


Your coach will be able to better make a strategy decision when he is properly informed. He will be more completely informed with a palm pilot, or other such score-keeping device. On our team, the coach doesn't drive the robot, and the drivers aren't automatons doing only what they are told while on the field. The coach will tell what the best strategy is, and the drivers will decide how to get it done, because it is their job to drive the robot; not the coach's.
Since all the palm pilot will be is a tool, it will improve efficiency. "put it where you think it should go" is fine and dandy, but I'd hate to be the coach when you lose the match by 2 points because you missed something.


Frankly, I find this blatant rejection of technology to be disturbing on a forum like ChiefDelphi, whose sole purpose is to promote it. A hammer is a hammer, and nobody refuses to use it because : "Real carpenters don't use hammers when building things."
I wouldn't go as far as to say that a palm will be completely accurate because of the difficulty in seeing the other side and input errors but I agree with you.

I honestly believe KISS is overrated. Computer hardware, software, cars, cellphones, mp3 players, HDTVs are just a few examples of how everything far more complex than it was even a few years ago. Why is FIRST pushing so many sensors on us? They want us to develop more complex software with more advanced controls and PID algorithms.

At the very least, the KISS formula has to rewritten every year to keep up with the pace.

I am not saying you should completely dump simplicity but rather you shouldn't dump form and function for simplicity, most of the time.

The fact is simplicity has limitations but complexity doesn't. In general, a simple robot more limited than a complex one. Why do people want more options in everything(cars, computers, CELLPHONES)?

Last edited by 6600gt : 19-01-2007 at 02:50.