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Originally Posted by mentorDon
I don't have a problem with mentors helping students. You could bring every NASA engineer as far as I'm concerned. My problem is with NASA or other large corporations supplying the manufacturing time and materials for some of these robots. I wrote a letter last year to First expressing my thoughts about these $1,000,000 robots. If the rules were changed so that all materials and manufacturing time were included in the cost of the robot, that would level the playing field for all teams. Time to eliminate the free ride from major sponsors.
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You don't need NASA to have insane machining resources. In fact, there are plenty of teams who have better free machining sponsors who have a ton more machines at their disposal. I see many of them squander those resources on poor robot designs anyway. If you want, I will gladly help you find your own machining resources.