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Originally Posted by Marc P.
Design is perfectly fine. But I do worry when a design becomes a fully assembled mechanism, waiting only for the robot controller and motors from the kit. Sort of defeats the purpose of having only 6 weeks.
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Many of these become fully assembled mechanism for testing. This is perfectly fine. There are rules against using parts built outside of the 6 week period and I can't think of a case where someone has broken them. People use the summer to build there knowledge for the next season. Read some whitepapers to learn more about different teams ideas. Many of them are designed and tested during the summer. I personally plan to learn more C programming, work on a new drive for next year, work on something possibly showing different applications of pneumatics and possible thought for next year, and maybe research and test new materials to try and use next year.