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Re: Are You EPICALLY overweight?

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Originally Posted by ZakuAce View Post
We always over engineer everything.
You probably mean that you make everything too big and strong, which is kind of the opposite of over engineering it. Engineering means designing, and the art of design is to do the most with the least....so a well engineered robot will be light, simple, inexpensive, easy to build, work well, etc.

It sounds like you didn't do enough engineering.

(the term "over engineer" is a pet peeve of mine)
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