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Re: Tetrix Switch not allowed?
Fewer contstraints = more solutions
If FIRST wants us to innovate, there should be as few design constraints as possible. There are really only 3 reasons there should ever be design constraints in the FRC.
1. Safety
2. Fairness / Unfair Competitive Advantage
3. Robot Control in the competition setting.
If something does not fall into one of these 3 categories, it should not be a design constraint. The light switch rule is a clear case of needess pettiness in the rules encoding for no obvious reason. The vendor of a component should NEVER be a design constraint unless the functionality of the component specifically addresses one of the 3 catagories above.
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