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Re: [BB] 2010 Game Hint #1
The lexan is merely a bracket used to mount a sensor. The track itself would be much more supported by pvc or steel tubing. This is just a single junction to count scores. Previous posts have ruled it as more of a way to mount something to the track, not mounting the track to something
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You are correct that true brainstorming has no bad ideas. Once brainstorming is over, ideas are evaluated, and performing this evaluation without regard for the requirements is a sub-optimal practice. |
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And no, the purpose of the game animation - or any other part of the kick-off broadcast - is NOT to substitute for reading the rules. Any student that thinks so is missing the point of the broadcast (and for that matter, the rules), and any mentor that lets them get away with that is doing a disservice to the team. -dave -... |
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I believe that the fact it came out on Christmas Eve has something to do with it.
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Why must people always struggle with reading the rules? Are there too many words? Dave, maybe some people need more pictures!
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If you're designing a robot to the game animation and then "tweaking it to fit the rules" later, I would say you're doing some shoddy engineering and missing the entire point of this process. One of the most important parts in an engineering design process is to DEFINE THE PROBLEM. If you don't properly understand your problem, how can you solve it? Reading the game manual (the ENTIRE game manual) is the only way to understand the problem given to us in the FIRST Robotics Competition. The animation is just a pretty tool to help outsiders understand the game; the manual is for me, the animation is for my grandmother. On 148 the first thing we do is read the "key" sections of the manual as a team, this ensures that every student is familiar with all the rules. You mentioned brainstorming... Brainstorming is a creativity exercise where a large number of ideas are generated in the hope that a few of them are good. This typically happens early on in the process. When it comes to brainstorming on 148 we like to throw around illegal ideas just like everyone else. There are no bad ideas during brainstorming. However, our team spends a LOT of time referencing the rulebook during brainstorming to make sure that all the ideas we move forward with are LEGAL. We also typically make a long list of questions we need to get answered (legality questions we will answer via Q&A or functionality questions we will answer via prototyping.) We've only got 6-weeks...it would be downright irresponsible for us to spend any significant amount of time on an illegal idea; those are by definition, "bad ideas." If you get a minute, take a glance at my paper on using an engineering design process and look at the section on specifications, pay careful attention to "design constraints." -John |
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This year's game animation should be a "south park" style Woodie reading the entire game manual from cover to cover.
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Dave has been posting a lot today. I'm trying to update his morris code list and I have to edit my post every 10 min.
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Can we make sure to schedule nap and snack time intermissions in this year's kick-off broadcast? |
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Spoiler for This is only one level deep, I promise:
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I would have to say reading the manual is very important. Last year we started coming up with ideas for the robot and one idea was to make it impossible to score on us. We then read the manual and discover that we weren't able to do any of the ideas we had come up with. This year I am definitely bringing my laptop to kickoff and getting the rules up on my computer before we get back to school to start working.
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I just want to know if 148 can now assign JVN 4 hours of shop cleaning duty for participating in this thread...
....we now return you to regularly scheduled programming Last edited by Rich Kressly : 28-12-2009 at 23:32. |
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