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Re: Design from Scratch

Posted by Dan, Student on team #10, BSM, from Benilde-St. Margaret's and Banner Engineering.

Posted on 5/3/99 9:08 PM MST


In Reply to: Design from Scratch posted by Dodd Stacy on 5/3/99 8:48 PM MST:



I agree that we very rarely design from scratch. Our team investigated the Genie Lifts in our gym and Wildstang's lift from last year before designing our lift.
But maybe this just comes down to my personal experience it's a much different process when you have no idea what direction the other teams are going in. I know it's different because I've done both; our first year we pretty much modeled our robot after Beatty's national champ machine since we didn't know what we were capable of. But this year we were given a clean slate to work with and I definitely enjoyed it more.
It could be argued that the current format neglects the re-engineering process which could probably be argued to be *more* important than the 'design-from-scratch' since most designs in life are knock-offs of others (or it's the same product altogether just with a clock on it.)
So what it all comes down to is personal preference, and I prefer design from scratch. I can see the arguements for the other way though. :-Dan


>>>Any team that is really focused on the competitive aspect of the er, um, Competition is crazy to abandon what they had working well (or nearly working) the previous year. None of this precludes the kids being exposed to and being a part of the visionary problem solving process.
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