[cadandcookies]

I think I mentioned this in the other thread, but I'm seriously having difficulty seeing why people are taking issue with the AndyMark Intake kit. The kit consists of a motor, a couple gears, some shaft and some custom brackets. The only thing in there you couldn't buy previously is the custom brackets (okay, and maybe one of the gears). It's essentially just a package of stuff you'd already be ordering if you wanted to use AndyMark parts to make an intake, but now a bit more approachable so a new team doesn't have to connect all the dots without any numbers. In my opinion there's a huge difference between the intake kit and something designed specifically to play this year's game-- say, someone selling a catapult or a flywheel shooter, or the designs for any of those.

Personally, I'm not sure I'd even draw the line at the WCP MCC robot-- maybe if they were selling packaged mechanisms, but it looks like they're selling a few custom brackets they made and releasing a CAD model that uses a bunch of previously-available COTS parts in an interesting way as a resource. I don't really see that as an issue-- it's essentially what BuildBlitz did in 2014, and besides, Ri3D 1.0, and Team Indiana build a robot using their products every year anyway. WCP just put their design up on a product page instead of a blog post. Maybe I'm missing the point, but I just don't see the issues people are talking about.