FIRST Engineering hits their stride...

[Joe Johnson]

Well, FIRST Engineering seems to have more or less turned the corner with their flurry of answered messages on the Yahoo site.

The answers have been concise and (mostly) consistant. With 3 or 4 voices each answering questions, it must be hard to keep everyone on the same page.

At this point I don't see any major items hanging out there yet to be answered or clarified. I think they should probably get an automatic script for answering silly questions (for example, Question: "Can I used egg whites and ground up declassified CIA documents to fuel a steam boiler my robot?" Answer: "RTR!" = Read The Rules!).

All joking aside, it has been a very difficult time for them I am sure but as the title of this message says, I think they have finally hit their stride.

Let's get on with building our robots!

By the way, CD7 is about 5-10 lbs over weight already and we haven't even screwed two bits of metal together yet!

So much to do, so little weight to do it all with...

I suppose we will work something out...

Joe J.

[Ken Leung]

We are about two weeks into build period, and I believe people asked most of the questions anyone can possibly think of by now. I think it will be a lot of repeating questions in the future because not everyone is well informed of every answers. It will be a waste of time if we keep having the engineers answer the same question over and over again.

I guess it's time to dig into the technical discussion and the yahoo! group, and condense whatever good stuff in there into a few threads and store them in one place. hmm... Sound familiar?

Expect something this weekend.

Oh yeah, may I safely assume that CD7 already have its 6 motors drive train designed, and ready to be put together beside its giant tripple jointed arm with a ball basket, and 3 additional arms that grab all three goals from the home zone? But come to think of it, with all those arms, CD7 won't need to leave home zone at all.