[Dprglist] Rainwater's Sieve

[David Anderson]

Howdy DPRG,

At a recent RBNO we were discussing the volume of bad robot building 
advice on the internet (I'm shocked!  Shocked!) and robot.net's Steve 
Rainwater's advice for sifting through the noise.  I've run across some 
really egregious examples of this on the net recently, and thought it 
might be good to share Steve's wisdom with the group.

Basically Steve had designed three simple questions to separate the 
robot builders from the "blowhards" (his term) and I've used his 
questions myself to good effect on more than one occasion.  They are 
really quite simple.

Rainwater's Sieve
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Question #1:   Where is your robot?

Question #2:   May we see it?

Question #3:   Can you turn it on?

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Steve says, if you can't get good positive answers to these three 
questions, you are  probably dealing with a blowhard.

Were all of life so simple!

cheers,
dpa