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Originally Posted by T3_1565
that sucks... oh well NEXT YEAR!!!
cause our drive system rocks, and I want it to be popular!!  |
Write a whitepaper (with lots of pictures please). It's effectively the same thing, but without the factual errors introduced by third-party writers (I'm not complaining about the quality of the writing in the books, there are just a few errors that a team probably would pick up on).
In fact, if everyone did that, we could have an online version of that book created directly by the FIRST community. Given a nearly unlimited medium (no printing to worry about) there could be write-ups on many more robots including the ones that performed not-so-well and the lessons learned from those problems (which I imagine would be just as valuable to new teams as reading about amazingly functional machines). A web-based medium also gives additional options not available in print such as Flickr-style notes on parts of images, and animations.
If people are willing to write up entries on their robots for an online Behind the Design "book", I would be willing to create the website for it (after AP exams though). I imagine it would need some kind of editorial process, but it should be pretty easy to set up such a website, there just need to be enough entries to make it useful.