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Re: New FTC Platform
I have a hard time with the wording of the announcement.
"The new kit is a true robotics prototyping platform. It includes a variety of components from sensors, to motors, to metal, that represent current technology. This is not a toy."
Not a toy? Is this a bash on Vex? Last I checked VEX has motors, sensors and metal. They may not be the most complex but I believe this to keep the cost down. Are you saying that I have not been doing any engineering for the last three years and instead have been playing with toys?
"Stronger metal allows teams to build robots that can withstand a lot of abuse - consistent with real world applications" Why is it that we abuse our robots? In the FRC I have seen to many robots become "defensive" by smashing into other robots. Where is the engineering in being a driving brick? I like the fact that Vex does not have the power to become this robot.
I find this announcement lacking in gracious professionalism and off the mark of FIRST's mission.
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“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” ~Teddy Roosevelt
Thus spake the master programmer:
"A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell."
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