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Re: Design Sharing

I agree that sharing during the same build season is probably not the best of ideas, unless you share build facilities and time with another team. In addition to "the element of competitive surprise," it's probably not time efficient or practical to share ideas on the fly while trying to perfect a new idea yourself. To me the best time for this sharing begins when the season ends, especially with regard to drive systems, because real performance data accompanies the ideas. Also, those teams that post Inventor entries, white papers, etc. make them available to the public in Feb-April because the demand of the build schedule doesn't allow for such detailed sharing earlier.

For one, I love the anticipation of the unknown, as pictures become available and the first week of regionals starts. Helping out rookie teams is always a great idea and I'd never leave them out in the cold, but I'd try to help as much as possible prior to that first build with information/designs from previous years.

Good Luck!
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