Preventing "Garbage In, Garbage Out" in FRC

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

Engineering is not physics. I don't think it should be either.

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Perhaps I haven't addressed your main point, but I would conclude with this: Engineering rules of thumb don't form the garbage that goes into the making of the robot. They take the garbage of the real world and turn it into more pure, if slightly diluted, data.

I totally agree with you, but like you said that's not really what I'm after. Tom hit it right on the head of how to shift people from the "Let me CAD up another copy of a WCD without any understanding of what I'm doing" vs. a "Let me design a widget that I can actually explain."

Judging from Jon and Tom's comments, it sounds like it just comes down to challenging people. "Why did you do that? (and I copied it off someone else's CAD doesn't count)"