Design and engineering mgmt rules

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by BeardyMentor

Three Rules of Engineering:
1) Always us the right tool for the job
2) The right tool is always a hammer
3) Anything can be a hammer

To a man with only a hammer, all problems look like nails.

BTW, what sort of wrench do you recommend to hammer in a masonry screw?

[GeeTwo]

Adapting some old ASW (antisubmarine warfare) axioms into robotics terms:

• Building robots is hard. If you're stupid, it's impossible.
• The other alliance is never as clueless as you hope they'll be.
• All tolerances are twice as large.
• Speed is life. (no changes to that one)

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

To a man with only a hammer, all problems look like nails.

If all you are is a nail, every hammer looks like a problem.

[BeardyMentor]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

To a man with only a hammer, all problems look like nails.

BTW, what sort of wrench do you recommend to hammer in a masonry screw?

I would suggest a 30 oz Freshman adjuster.

[Pretzel]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

BTW, what sort of wrench do you recommend to hammer in a masonry screw?

My team's favorite for jobs like that is the left-handed French metric adjustable open-ended magnetic reverse-ratcheting box wrench.

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by Pretzel

My team's favorite for jobs like that is the left-handed French metric adjustable open-ended magnetic reverse-ratcheting box wrench.

I'm guessing that your handle derives from the shape of your robots.

[Ether]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

what sort of wrench do you recommend to hammer in a masonry screw?

A Langstrom 7-inch Gangly wrench

[Ian Curtis]

Quest oculus non vide, cor non delet
What the eye does not see, the heart does not regret
"A lot happens that we are not telling you about."
-- Opening comments from the Apollo guidance computer source code (per Digital Apollo)

"This machine was so modern, so frightfully new, no one knew quite exactly just what it would do!" -- Dr. Seuss, The Butter Battle Book

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by Ether

A Langstrom 7-inch Gangly wrench

HAW HAW HAW! And best fishes to you, as well!