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Originally Posted by ngreen
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.
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Of course, it's a great thing to further your knowledge in the off season, but the reason I bring it up is I've heard multiple reports of a team that builds their entire actual robot drive train before kickoff, and just waits for the kit to plug in the motors, the robot controller, and whatever item the game would require them to build, so they end up with a full robot in less than 2 weeks. Sort of irritated me to hear about that, but I guess everyone will play the game their way.
I don't mean to sound negative at all, I just hope people keep gracious professionalism in mind. I plan to use the (object formerly known as edubot) to improve my understanding of C, and I've been closly following all the discussions about new drive trains, and may play with a few things myself.