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Originally Posted by ohrly?
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.
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I disagree. R34 says no batteries except those integral to COTS devices and even that is questionable. So as long as the constructed gearbox in your example is not COTS the result of the constructed plans is not COTS either. The plans would be.
Ultimately the people to provide definitive resolution to this are at FIRST HQ.
I advise as I have done. To ask them.
If they say go for it I certainly will not disagree. Best ask early.
Things that are not specific or overlooked often take time to get answered.