Thanks for the support, folks.
I've been working a little bit with Matt to try to make his vision a reality. What you see now is a taste of what Matt and I have been discussing for a few months. A lot of the suggestions I've seen (esp. in that last post by Rees - Hi Rees!!) are things that we're targeting with future development. A slight teaser:
- Optional engineering notes for providers of each design
- Preview a CAD file (preview image so you don't have to wait for the wrong 10MB file)
- Design tagging system (similar to blog tags or Twitter hash-tags)
- Year and team searchable indexes.
- Browse a year by team name
- Browse through several years of team designs
- And more...
I'm pretty excited for this to get rolling. The hit counters are already racking up the hits, and the bandwidth meter is rising. It's good to see some interest in this so early. For now, keep sending us those CAD files and giving us feedback. Our focus is on making this as easy as possible for teams to use, and to create a tool that can grow itself and continue to serve the FIRST community for years to come.
In answer to a one question that I haven't seen answered yet:
Yes... or no. Which is it? You can't have both. "I am thinking, therefore I am."