Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Robocon day one

Today is day one and i have a great session with my seniors in ROBOCON.I think my seniors have an organised session for us and i feel " ah!! this is the envirionment that i want "

Although i intercept half way, i start from 2nd session. Find Constraint and Task.
Constraint and Task is an important steps and sometimes we always neglected. Kudos for Wei Hou for introducing this. We discuss and find out the constraint, wht we cannot do, whats the rules restrict, what the dimension limit, preventing violation. Then, the Task is what we can do to achieve goals.

Finding these can made a good reference for us during design stage. We can prevent violation and we can also make choices based on them.

Later chapter of the day is the brain storming session. We are going to create an idea bank for designing robots.

heres how to do fast diagram to collect and link our ideas,
1) we must know that no idea is stupid.
2)watch the clock-this give us know what we know and we brainstorming under pressure. Think fast, its a good to train engineers. MIT way.
3)record every idea.
4)Quantity emphasized
5)Maintain correct mindset and have fun
6)Let no good idea go unheard.

So we mind mapping and we do it stage by stage.
eg, starting with a task.
then think the ways to acheive the task
then think the method for the ways
then think the mechanism of the method.

p/s we must make it stage by stage to prevent we go too further details to a particulat line, then forgot the other ways. Plus we might keep think the solution for the one line chain only. Alternative may not be stimulated.

Kudos kudos for seniors who bring this system. I learn a lot today on arranging ideas. I could apply it for my club and projects.

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