how are the teams doing so far?

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Posted by Matt Leese at 1/25/2001 5:23 PM EST


Other on team #73, Tigerbolt, from Edison Technical HS and Alstom & Rochester Institute of Technology.


In Reply to: Anything worth doing, is worth doing poorly
Posted by Ernie P on 1/25/2001 4:59 PM EST:



: All the best to your team ... "May your wheels have infinite mu and your CG never fall outside the borders of your footprint". (Only a FIRSTer would understand)
: Thanx, Ernie P

Infinite Mu you say? As nice as that sounds, you gotta remember that you've got to out power static friction to get going at all and that has it's own Mu. With infinite Mu you'd be sitting there for the entire two minute match.

And as far as getting behind goes, there's this excellent quote from an engineer on my old team: "The sooner you get behind, the longer you have to catch up."

Matt