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Originally Posted by JVN
This doesn't bother me at all. What bothers me is that many of us are straight up lying to ourselves about where ideas come from. In the heat of the season, it is rare that anyone tracks where ideas come from, even rarer when they get traced back to the source.
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^ This is very true!
2011 was our rookie year, and the thought of designing a mini-bot was a daunting one! Our mini-bot team searched the internet and YouTube for inspiration until they finally found this really cool idea for a bot that used surgical tubing to clamp on the bar, and used vex parts for everything else.
We stuck with that design, added our own improvements, and we had 100% deployment every time we went for the pole. Long story short, we actually ran into the very team we got the design from, and they were overjoyed that someone had copied their design, and quizzed us left and right about the modifications we made and how it worked.
Anyway, our head coach once said that "Copying is the best form of flattery", and so if we find a cool or innovative design for a robot and we use it, we had better know who to credit!