[mathking]

I think this is a good development. Even though I am firmly in the camp that believes the three day builds have been good for FRC. I just spent a lot of time going through our old match videos and trying to grab good pictures of as many of the robots we have played with and against as possible. As a side project I was also looking at robot designs. And one thing that is clear to me is that the last couple of years have seen a significantly higher percentage of functional robots. And once I subtracted out all of the box on wheels (or box on wheels with non-functional devices) robots I did not see a lessening of variety.

That said, if this project helps teams with ideas about how to develop prototypes without complete robot designs I think it will be a positive development for FRC. I think that the biggest problem many rookies have is that limited experience and limited resources often inhibit the development of prototypes. I think that sometimes older, more well-resourced with experience teams tend to forget how much their institutional knowledge plays into their development process, because to them it just is a part of the process. This seems to me to be a good way to increase that knowledge base across the FRC community.