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Serious uses of FIRST skills...
Posted by Joe Johnson, Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 4/12/99 8:19 PM MST


In Reply to: Putting FIRST knowledge to good thought) posted by Thomas A. Frank on 4/12/99 4:47 PM MST:



You are only half serious, but I can promise you that there are some very serious applications of the stuff we are learning from building these robots.

Patent and other concerns keep me from going into it much futher right now, but I can promise you that there will be a new feature on vehicles soon that almost everyone who has seen the our team's robots for the past few years will recognize.

Once we get this thing into production, we are going to be yelling our heads off that it wouldn't have happened without the experience our advanced development group gained by working with Pontiac Central to build these silly robots.

I know that not every team works in a field that can apply their FIRST skills so easily (I work the the Electro-Mechanical Development Dept.), but even so, there are a lot of lessons that FIRST teaches those who try to compete. I don't think that it is stretching the truth to say that when it comes to FIRST, businesses often get as good as they give.

Looking forward to yet another future fruit of FIRST.

Joe J.



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