darkwinters wrote:Just a question (and this may have been clarified earlier): If we're allowed to use variable resistors (i.e. potentiometers/rheostats), what is the point of the rule disallowing integrated circuits?
We generally don't like to allow ICs in event because it opens up the door to microprocessors and computers being allowed, at which point the cost of things seem to sky rocket just to be competitive and it's a lot harder to verify that the students actually built things and understand how they work.