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Originally Posted by martin417
There was no intention to use any of the fabricated items, but to have raw material and attached COTS items available...
If I take a piece of an arm off of last year's (or this year's) bot, cut it to length or dill a hole in it to make it a brace for the competition bot, I simply used some of the unlimited amount of raw materials I am allowed to bring.
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From the glossary:
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FABRICATED ITEM: any COMPONENT or MECHANISM that has been altered, built, cast, constructed, concocted, created, cut, heat treated, machined, manufactured, modified, painted, produced, surface coated, or conjured partially or completely into the final form in which it will be used on the ROBOT.
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I submit that when you have "attached COTS items" or you take a piece off an older robot you don't have raw materials. Even if your arm is nothing but a straight piece of 80/20 you probably cut it from a longer piece of stock, and the word "cut" is in the definition.
To me, the only nebulous part of this is T11's use of the word "produce". I think it's obvious that you're not allowed to have a drill press in your hotel room to make parts at night. What's not obvious to me is whether or not "removal from an existing <something>" is the same as "produce".
This definitely needs to be asked in the Q&A. I'm pretty sure I know what the answer will be -- "removal" = "produce", and therefore having a practice robot in the parking lot or hotel isn't a "static" set of fabricated items -- but it's worth asking.