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Posted by Peter VanWylen.

Student on team #107, Team ROBOTICS, from Holland Christian High School and Metal Flow Corp..

Posted on 8/17/2000 4:03 PM MST


In Reply to: Hits, Misses, & Suggestions -- long message posted by Joe Johnson on 8/16/2000 9:49 AM MST:



I agree almost completely with you Joe, great list!

A few comments:

: Hits:
: ¨ No reaction against the goal rule - great!

Great rule; no enforcement. If I remember correctly, you couldn't touch the goal at all, except in an accidental bump. You couldn't even touch it to 'line up'. Well, I watched a lot of matches and never saw somebody get called for this, even though there was a lot of bumping (reacting) to the goal. I think this one should be scrapped, mainly b/c it is too much of a judgement call to enforce.

: ¨ Not making spare parts during the ship time was a double-edged sword. We loved having the time to just relax (what else could we do?) but we hated not having the ability to make a part that we KNEW we would need but could not make at a competition.

Of course, this rule is *impossible* to enforce. This does give many teams a well needed rest from building parts, but also creates a temptation that many teams fall to.

: Misses:

: Suggestions:

: ¨ Need a method to measure current used by various motors in control program
: ¨ Need a method to measure temperature (of motors mostly) in control program
: ¨ Need a better main fusing scheme - nuisance trips of 60 Amp fuse. 80 Amp circuit breaker? Could be used as an ON/OFF switch.

You said it!


Thanks for the hard work on a huge document, with just about everything covered.


Peter