Dealing with robotics regrets

[Joe G.]

Originally Posted by Christopher149

I must be old, because the elevators I regret are from 2008, 2010, and 2011. 2015 is me (as a mentor) learning from those 3 high school years.

That brings up a good point about regrets. It's very easy to overly generalize a regret. The fact that you regret your team's elevator says very little about the quality of elevators as a concept. There have been many great elevators before, and many great elevators will come after. Instead of swearing off elevators forever, and potentially overlooking them in a situation where they'd be a great idea, why don't you try to figure out what specific details of your elevator you regret? Even then, it's very unlikely that the correct answer is as simple as "part X is bad." More likely, a good answer is along the lines of "part X shouldn't be used in combination with motor power Y if we aren't also able to completely prevent the elevator from relying on hard stops."

In engineering, good regrets are usually very specific.