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Re: pic: 3716 Transmissions

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Originally Posted by JVN View Post
In general, no one in FIRST gets angry when someone "steals" a design, but they like it a LOT more when they get credit. You said "this is 100% our design" which is true, but a better statement would have been "we designed this heavily inspired by _____".

As far as selling gears...
It sounds to me more like RC did you a favor and his team/machine shop/whatever is sponsoring your team by donating some machining as a favor. You just paid for raw stock and some annodizing (which is what you'll account for in your Robot BOM). Manufacturing sharing is a great collaborative part of FIRST. THAT would be legal...

Be clear. There are big differences in the nuances here. Saying it one way will make you friends, saying it another raises eyebrows. Your design was inspired heavily by others, and you got some gears machined by a friend... right?

-John

PS - The transmissions look great
Thank you John for that clarification. I did state that my design was inspired by a few different teams, but not in the description of the photo as I should have. And I know what you mean by the way you say things. I should have stated all of that in the start of the thread.


And thanks, they look pretty good on our bot.
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