I am not going to comment directly to this conversation, but would like to put out a challenge directly to both Dan and Woody.
Dan, your team, 97, if history repeats itself, is supported by MIT. I am going to challenge you on a time you have free, to visit and have a conversation with a bright professor there in room 3-435. He is insightful and i believe would be able to answer some questions and ideas you have on this topic.
Woody, the challenge i have for you is based off of a
post, from you, earlier in the year.
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Originally Posted by Woody1458
A little disappointed with our brain trust this year (I can only say that because I am design team head), we only came up with 2 plausible ideas, and are full-size prototyping one right now. Should have a robot mapped out (hopefully CAD'ed) by this friday.
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From how it sounds, is that your team is all student based and run, with a direct lack of adult engineering support. I challenge you for over the summer to find an [even just one] engineer to support your team. Beyond this I suggest that you take your current students and new mentor(s) and redesign your 2008 robot to see what areas you can improve on. This work will help mold your team to know how to interact with adults for 2009 and to a point where you will see what insight an engineer can assist with.