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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
I see a potential problem with this. If enough teams started to sell enough different parts, FIRST could basically become who can buy the best parts type of thing. If a certain team had the money, they could buy team a's frame, team b's tranny, team c's arm, ect. and end up all they do is a few modifications to the frame to fit the parts, and bolting them together. There's a difference between manufacturing parts a team cant make as a mentor, and buying parts. Plus, the fundraiser would be hard anyway, if the other team wanted to actually use them in the competition, sense all their parts have to be made during the build season, they fundraising team would have to basically become an assembly line to make any profit.
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What's wrong with this? What if there is a new team which has very little knowledge, 1 or 2 mentors, and a very small budget? I would have no problem letting a team assemble their robot from parts that other teams sold, I see this as a win-win situation. Isn't this why FIRST stopped being so detailed on what parts we can use? Once the team becomes more advanced, they would most likely begin to create their own parts.
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Originally Posted by Billfred
You've hit the big thing--building the bigger parts of the robot in a six-week timespan is hard to impossible. Therefore, it can't really get that big, unless a team decides not to build a robot that year. And no team is going to do that.
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Help me here... maybe I have read this wrong... But if your team is "acting" like a "company" in the you send us $$$ and we send you a part, why wouldn't the "team" (aka company) be able to take orders and mass produce the parts before the season started? Then on the Saturday the season starts, take the boxes of parts to UPS and ship them all out.
Then the team has a couple of options, "buy" one of their own parts that was previously made (though that could get dicey) or just make another one with all the experience they have.
Yes? No?