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Clarification on COTS Embedded Systems

Our team is looking to use an ODroid on our robot in order to do on board image processing. We are unsure whether the ODroid would count as COTS if we put a purchased unmodified case around it, and put a purchased unmodified battery inside that as well. We are thinking that this should be fine, as nearly no embedded boards we could buy come with a built in battery.

We want to use a battery so that we can avoid any potential brownouts mid-match that would cause us to lose vision processing.

So, we want to buy a case, battery, and expansion board for our ODroid, is this COTS and legal?

Or, do we have to get a non-customizable board with everything included as one item?