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Unread 08-08-2013, 12:29
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Re: Battery powered raspberry pi

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Example 3: A Team obtains openly available design drawings from a professional publication during the pre-season, and uses them to fabricate a gearbox for their ROBOT during the build period following Kickoff. The design drawings would be considered a COTS item, and may be used as “raw material” to fabricate the gearbox. The finished gearbox itself would be a FABRICATED ITEM, and not a COTS item.
According to the glossary, drawings/plans can be a COTS item. So if the battery was integral to the COTS computing device plans (provided by some *non-team* source for free), then would the battery fall under the exception for R34?

If using a COTS battery, COTS computing device and COTS USB devices, without influencing any actuator, this would fall under the spirit of the exception as I see it.

Last edited by ohrly? : 08-08-2013 at 12:32. Reason: Adding clarity.