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Originally Posted by Fusion_Clint
So 2056 doesn't teach students or collaborate with other teachers in the offseason? I agree that making custom wheels during the build season is not an ideal expenditure of time.
However, I thought my job was to educate students. Which I do year round. If my students know how to design and make a wheel, they will understand how to select the best wheel for our application.
I guess we could go the route of copying what the best teams do, but I prefer my students to understand why we do things.
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You can argue that the best of both worlds is to have your students design and make something that doesn't directly have more COTS options and is more analogous to the type of things they would design in season.
Also, it probabaly wasn't intentional but your tone seems to really dismiss system level design. Effective use of COTS parts is real engineering and exists in all industries. It's really an arbitrary line anyway, in terms of a robot scoring points is a wheel really all that different from a bolt? A connector? Etc...?