Musings on Design Inspiration

[IndySam]

I kind of get tired of folks saying how somebody chooses to run their team and inspire their students is wrong or unfair.

I don't know how many times I have defended teams like yours JVN when I have heard others say that it's unfair that you have the resources that you do. So like those times I'm gonna tell you how wrong you are.

It would be great if teams had the mentor staff that could help students design and run through the physics and math on how things work like your does. I would guess that most teams don't, especially enough to cover all the different systems on robot.

I have been very clear this year how much I hate the minibot rules but the rules were written this year to be this way. Don't complain when teams choose to take advantage of them.

When a low resource team can take a simple idea from another robot and have a chance to be competitive it can be much more inspiring than learning the specific science behind it.