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The FIRST robotics team has continued to meet over the summer months, at least to do outreach visits.  We usually get a nice tour, sometimes there are cookies.  The robot zips around grabbing and dropping objects.  But its important to mix things up.

Today I had them do a short design/team building exercise for one of our sponsors.  Specifically a company that makes high end printed circuit boards.  Here's what I threw at them, giving them a half hour and a white board.

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Printed circuit boards are delicate.  You have to design a container to ship 60 boards into an area where there has been a major disaster.  These boards are 2cm by 6cm.

We are not saying the disaster is in Tokyo.  We are not denying it either.

The container and boards need to be protected from:

Dust

Vibrations equivalent to an earthquake

Radiation

Impact equivalent to being dropped from 10 meters height

This is an unusual set of specifications.  We are not saying Godzilla is involved.  Not denying it either.  The container must be of dimensions and weight such that two people can carry it.

いや、ゴジラ！