[JamesCH95]

Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

I think being open is an awesome thing, as long as you're actually open and not giving us useless "teaser" photos of gears, sprocket, wheels, etc. People want to see pictures of something important if your going to share something. I think a great team to emulate in that fact is 842.

I agree. I find 'teaser pics' to be really annoying and basically useless.

Originally Posted by squirrel

Interesting...the year we had the most stuff out in public, earliest in the season (videos, drawings, cad renderings) was also the year we won a regional because we had a really good robot.

If you post your "secret" ideas here on CD, you might get some instant feedback that will help you either improve them even more, or else show you why they might not be such a good idea after all.

Also if other teams copy your idea because it really is a good idea, you have helped another team, and having more, better performing robots at the competitions is a good thing.

We haven't found a downside to sharing everything we're doing.

I also agree with all of what squirrel said, especially the bit I highlighted.

We (95) talk with 885 and 3585, the two teams local to us, and do exactly this. It helps any one of us from doing something silly.