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Re: Pnumatic Rules Suggestions/Gripes

If you are working for a pneumatics company this would be a great opportunity to talk to them about FIRST and possibly being a supplier.

One of the restrictions (a very good one) of FIRST is to make sure materials and parts of all robot building is accessable to all teams (not including custom design and fabrication of some raw materials). The parts we have in the kit and parts allowed from a list are based upon safety as wells as availability. In some cases parts are donated and often purchased for the kit or from a specific list from a specific supplier (sort of payback for their donation).

Keep talking about improvements to the kit and make sure you pass on all suggestions to FIRST - they listen to teams and experts on teams. Most of the recent changes are a result of suggestions like found here in this thread.
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