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Design Constraints - Outside the box?
Posted by Justin.
Other on team Blue Lightning Alumni Association from RWU sponsored by FIRST-A-holics Anonymous.
Posted on 10/2/2000 3:51 PM MST
In Reply to: QUESTION OF THE WEEK!!! posted by Andy Grady on 10/1/2000 8:26 PM MST:
Hello Everyone,
As I was pondering this idea of adding three more teams...I was thinking. It has been my opinion (please don't flame me 2 badly for it) that ever since the introduction of the human players that FIRST has been less about building a robot and more about building a strategy. (not that I am against a good strategy or needing one but hear me out.) In some of the recent games u might not have even needed your robot to play the game...I'm not a huge fan of that idea. I got into FIRST to design a robot. So it is with this preface that I make my proposal.
What if instead of changing the # of machines, or the playing field design....Let's subtract about 30 pounds from that weight limit (same kit), or let's shrink that box by a I dunno say 5 inches. By now you have probably all clicked the back button but I know there are teams out there who have gotten very used to thinking in terms of that same standard box. Let's be honest how many of us start working in the summer because we take it for granted FIRST wouldn't do anything as drastic as lowering the weight limit, heck some of us pray they'll increase it. But by doing this are we really engaging in a true engineering exercise requiring us to think outside of the box or have we become very accustom to thinking in terms of that very comfortable 36x36x48 box and that 130lbs limit??
Food for thought,
Justin
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