A friendly reminder to everyone

[Koko Ed]

I don't think the safety advisers would approve the use of explosives to dispose of your robot (I think they'd more readily endorse recycling the bot instead).

[Creator Mat]

I like the "I reject your reality and substitute my own" option better. No the arm that i just spent the last week building didn't fall apart into a million little pieces it only took a break (hahaha bad pun).

[JaneYoung]

What in this topic makes it spotlight worthy? As far as I can see, it makes it worthy of the Chit Chat forum.

Jane

[RoboDesigners]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

What in this topic makes it spotlight worthy?
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[Off-Topic]
This could be a topic for a whole new thread.

Some quotes are spotlighted for being "true" or some memorable/important principle. Others are spotlighted because they are funny/interesting. I felt this was funny/interesting (particularly because it is something that is sort-of contrary to an engineering mindset (engineers don't like to fail, and most don't like to blow things up), and FIRST is filled with engineers, therefore, it is ironic, and irony is a type of humor), so I spotlighted it.

I wasn't around when the spotlights were started (I think it was in 2002, based on searches), so I'm not entirely sure what the original purpose of the system was. Please correct me if my idea of what makes a "spotlight-worthy" post isn't accurate.

Andrew
[/Off-Topic]

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by RoboDesigners

[Off-Topic]
This could be a topic for a whole new thread.

Some quotes are spotlighted for being "true" or some memorable/important principle. Others are spotlighted because they are funny/interesting. I felt this was funny/interesting (particularly because it is something that is sort-of contrary to an engineering mindset (engineers don't like to fail, and most don't like to blow things up), and FIRST is filled with engineers, therefore, it is ironic, and irony is a type of humor), so I spotlighted it.

I wasn't around when the spotlights were started (I think it was in 2002, based on searches), so I'm not entirely sure what the original purpose of the system was. Please correct me if my idea of what makes a "spotlight-worthy" post isn't accurate.

Andrew
[/Off-Topic]

Sounds like you've got a handle on the spotlights. With this one - I would wonder why it is spotlit if I saw it, maybe not right now but a few months down the road, a year, two years. Mythbusters is awesome and the stars of Mythbusters do very cool things, true, but their goals in the show may be a little different from FRC.

What you might spend some of your free time doing is reading some of the threads/posts that the spotlit quotes are taken from. You can usually find some excellent discussions that way.

Jane

[RoboDesigners]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Sounds like you've got a handle on the spotlights. With this one - I would wonder why it is spotlit if I saw it, maybe not right now but a few months down the road, a year, two years. Mythbusters is awesome and the stars of Mythbusters do very cool things, true, but their goals in the show may be a little different from FRC.

What you might spend some of your free time doing is reading some of the threads/posts that the spotlit quotes are taken from. You can usually find some excellent discussions that way.

Jane

Ok, now I see where you were coming from. Thanks!

[Taylor]

I agree with the OP. According to someone in the know, it's good to break things early. Celebrate your failures as well as your successes.
There's also this other thing about an iterative process ...

[Bill_B]

The advice that things can be blown up this year is especially apt. In fact, several dozen things will be blown up, viz. game pieces in four colors.

[J.Warsoff]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

I don't think the safety advisers would approve the use of explosives to dispose of your robot (I think they'd more readily endorse recycling the bot instead).

touché. but, then again, they did have Grant Imahara featured in the safety video, and we all know what he's built....

http://images.quickblogcast.com/8145...3/Picture2.jpg
DEADBLOW

[Grim Tuesday]

My conclusion from this post:

Failure is an option separate from blowing stuff up, so if you don't fail, then you should blow stuff up, and therefore whichever robot that wins the championship should be blown up.


Am I doing it right?

[J.Warsoff]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

My conclusion from this post:

Failure is an option separate from blowing stuff up, so if you don't fail, then you should blow stuff up, and therefore whichever robot that wins the championship should be blown up.


Am I doing it right?

well, that's one way of going about it

[Dracon Phinex]

Good words of wisdom!