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Originally Posted by martin417
In the past, we have brought lots of "stuff" and kept it in the trailer. Some of that stuff might have been past year's bots, this year's practice bot or parts of bots. There was no intention to use any of the fabricated items, but to have raw material and attached COTS items available, not just for our team, but for teams that came up and asked "have you guys got any (fill in the blank)". An old bot has motors, gearboxes, channel, angle, screws, nuts, etc. that could be useful to our team or any other team that needs parts or raw material.
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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Emphasis mine.
Some
hypothetical problems I could foresee:
- Do you publicize this in any way? If not, then only teams that happen to stumble upon your stash benefit.
- If you have better, more expensive materials on your last year's robot than I have on my current robots, can I simply replace it? Can I take off my cardboard and use your Lexan? Your gearbox that is better than mine?
- Can I replace burnt out motors/C-Rios etc. with your stuff? Can I just put burnt out motors on my robot before I even bag it, and then take all your spares?
- Do you access your trailer before/after the pits are open to grab stuff to work on in the pits during pit hours? If so, can you open up your trailer for me at 10pm on Thursday night for me to do a little browsing? How about at 2am? and can you bring some coffee?
I know I'm getting a bit ridiculous here, but you can see where things could go. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to do a little loosening up - it just looks like I'm taking a nap.
