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Re: Re-using past hardwear
There's a Q&A clarification on re-manufacturing hardware from prior designs.
In the Game manual glossary, you'll find COTS hardware must be readily available to teams from a vendor. Detailed designs in professional publications can be used as "raw material" in the build season, with parts fabricated only after kickoff. The legality of using prior-year designs depends where the detailed designs are posted. There's a big difference from having drawings on a team's website vs a FIRST-wide shared library (i.e. SolidWorks, Inventor, etc.).
Please carefully read the blue box under <R22> regarding pre-fabricated and build-to-print parts. Detailed designs need to be produced during the build season.
FIRST allows software to become "COTS" if it is made available via sites widely-accessible to FRC teams. This differs from the rules for hardware.
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