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Originally Posted by Peciv
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.
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.
Yes? No?
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True, but can you think of what would happen to robotics if this all happened. There would be a couple teams who would mass produce certain parts they were good at. Say 112234 has amazing transmissions and 998876 is the pneumatics expert. Just pull out your catalog, and order your robot. People would no longer learn anything from robotics. Anyone can order parts from a catalog, but it's a different experiance when you have to design the parts and follow through by building them. You also will create 2 classes of FIRST teams. The ones who buy the best of everything, and become the dominant/winning teams, and the ones who actually bother to make theirs themselves. I sure hope FIRST never becomes nothing more than ordering parts through a catalog and assembling them.