[Anupam Goli]

Thank you all for your responses.

I don't mind in house fabrication, in fact, I loved it as a freshman, being able to manufacture my own parts and placing it on the robot. But fabrication without a design is meaningless. This year our mechanical lead student only used L-channel and 80/20 because of the ease of building, and how you can design around the build. When he heard about 1311's robot being fabricated outside and being amazingly done, he said "That's not fun, I like solving problems while building, that's more fun". Fabricating is fun, but fabricating without a design is foolhardy. I think that this attitude needs to be reversed.