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Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 1/14/2000 6:34 PM MST


In Reply to: Eric's Answer posted by Daniel on 1/14/2000 1:32 PM MST:



I have to admit that I was very impressed with Eric's answer.

He makes a very strong case.

I believe that we can live the new rules.

One think I can say is that teams had better plan on REALLY having their machines done at the ship date less one week or else you will be VERY disappointed.

Good luck to us all.

Joe J.

P.S. By the way, just to show that this game has a lot of rules that even so called veterans are not fully aware of, I did not fully appreciate the level of 'FREEZE' that was expected at the competition.

I suppose that my opinion on the matter was born of observation rather than a strict reading of the rules. Based on first hand knowledge of what goes on in the pits, I must have thought to myself, 'that rule can't be intended to mean that or else the entire New England Regional would have consisted of 2 or three robots. So, it must mean that no major machine changes are allowed OR that you must be inspected before any major machine changes OR that just because you have gone through inspection it does not allow you to change your machine in any way you wish OR that...

Having read Eric's reply, I found myself going back over our past machines & reviewing our pit activities, wondering what we did or didn't do to live by or violate this rule. I also wonder we were alone in our misunderstanding of the rules in years past and whether or not we were looked on as bold faced cheaters by our pit neighbors. Based on Eric's comments & my observations, I suppose I had a lot of company.

Ah well, the past is past. The rules are clear now. It will not be easy but as I say, I think we can live with them.

Now... Can anyone help us find a portable lathe & CNC mill for our pit area so that we can manufacture parts at the Regionals? ;-)