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Originally Posted by bkahl
If they are trying to learn to CAD better, is not allowing them to talk to other people CADing in the competition really going to fuel their knowledge? I think especially because it is a leaning experience, participants should have the utmost desire to learn and teach each other during the 3 days.
IIRC you said there will be a Slack channel for competitors. It seems to me this would be a PERFECT avenue for participants to gauge ideas, feasibility of design, and ask for help. I don't see how that would take away from anything here. Who cares if everyone comes out with similar robots- if they're all individually designed, does it not fulfill the goal of getting more exposure to CAD?
Sending assemblies and full on collaboration/copying designs IS potentially detrimental to your goal, but communication and bouncing ideas off each other isn't.
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We will have people answering CAD questions during the event for people who need help. If other competitors want to answer questions relating CAD more power to them.
In terms of talking about feasibility about designs we think the Judges on the final day are much more suited to talk about that.
If you have any more questions if we could talk within PM's it would be great. That way we can keep this thread more free for future announcements.
Speaking of which. I probably should announce our third judge. Our final judge is Devin Castellucci (Robochair) from team 1678. Looks like we will have a very qualified judging panel and I am sure some very valuable design feedback will be received.
Stay tuned for future announcements.