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Originally Posted by Andrew Schuetze
I am for all of the above. My post asks the following: What are the veteran teams with design and machining support cooking up in their shops this off-season? Provided they aren't a beta test team.  |
I hope I'm not going too far in saying this: a lot of students are afraid to post designs here on CD (and even some adults) because of the lack of discretion others give while posting comments/suggestions/feedback about a design. I know I personally would rather only hear comments from people like JVN, Adam Heard, etc. than from other students but that's just me. I used to (and still do) have the dumbest design ideas in my head and would totally brush aside a suggestion or comment from someone but then look back at it and realize how big of an idiot I was in not initially taking the person's advice. There's a vast community of designers in FRC who only share their designs and ask for feedback from certain people via things like facebook and whatnot. There's also people who I think got tired of hearing the same exact crap from students about their designs when they were kind enough to post models of their amazing gearboxes/innovations (people like Andy Baker used to post some amazing stuff.) There's a reason why a lot of engineers don't post CAD or designs on here anymore, and its not because they love being secretive. Its just the type of attitude people give off in their comments, and the type of attitude comments are taken with (in my case).
Me being a thick headed student
Me still making some dumb designs
Starting off with not-so-smart designs
What happens after you learn from Adam Heard, Andy B, Pink, Poofs, etc..
I love being able to get feedback from engineers and experienced students, but not on a public forum where sometimes I'd rather not have another inexperienced student post about a design. There's a bunch of design sharing that goes on outside of CD and I really love the people who've help me learn about the stupidity of my designs and how to start making practical things: Adam Heard, Sean Cantrell, Andrew Schreiber, Brandon Holley, JVN, Ed Venator, etc..
P.S- These are all things RC and I have experienced together and learned from the same people.