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Originally Posted by Dmentor
I’m progressing well this year through what I think of as the FRC equivalent of the Kübler-Ross model (commonly known as the five stages of grief). I imagine that there are many other folks going through this as well and hopefully we won’t dwell too much more on the negative aspects.
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I think I did the exact same thing!!
But then I had thought's similar to Travis's
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Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman
Don't cry [even virtual tears!] - everything's relative. 148 maximizes the output they get from the plentiful input resources they have, including human. If the output your team generates relative to your team's available inputs is near the same ratio as theirs, be proud of that achievement, as your results are no less impressive.
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And Finally I went to look at the "older" robots from 148 & 217:
http://www.robowranglers.com/history/
http://www.thunderchickens.org/ (click on robots)
And realized that looking back to their first few years, they had silly little aluminum bar and PVC robots like the rest of us... 148 has been building & learning since 1992, 217 has been building & learning since 1999, thats 29 years of experience combined!! Why do I mention this? because they are doing what we all should... CONSTANTLY strive to be better every year. You can see it in the progression of their robots, and they came up with the idea of sharing that experience across teams. You can do infinitely better if you dont try to take on all of the work yourself and if you learn from other people's successes and mistakes as well as your own. I'm not saying all teams should co-operate, but for any of you that get that hit of jealousy that I did, just sit back and realize that we ALL can do this too... if we just strive to be better every year. Don't have the resources? GO FIND THEM!! If 1114 can get parts made in Texas, why cant an MD team get parts from CA?? Find resources, find really good engineering mentors, find money, constantly try to do better and do more, have patience, PRACTICE, and you CAN be 148 or 217
Use your jealousy as inspiration if you must!
But before you get stuck in the depression stage realize we are all inspiring kids... I bet those kids that took forever to mill a keyway will remember that for the rest of their lives, and are no less inspired. They may not have gained the depth or breadth of experience that a 148 student does, but our point is to get them to WANT to... to head off to college wanting to be THAT good.
Congrats to 148 & 217 for setting a really high bar for the rest of us