[KenWittlief]

NO NO NO NO NO!!!!

you absolutely cannot use mechanisms from previous years designs unless it is something that can be COMPLETELY purchased by all teams off the shelf

it doesnt matter if you modify it or not.

what you CAN do is take an old design and make a new copy of it - as long as all the fabricated parts are fabricated after the 2004 kickoff.

95% of what we use in engineering (and on our robots) was designed and fabricated by someone else (all the parts they give us in the kit for example)

you are free to make customs parts of your own design, or of someones elses design, or from a white paper on this forum - but you have to build and fabricate ALL the parts this year.