Thread: COTS parts that were in the kit?
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Re: COTS parts that were in the kit?
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Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday
Browsing through the Q&A, I found this one that really puzzles me:

The only logical conclusion I can gather from this is that ANYTHING that was in the Kit of Parts that was not shipped with your robot is now illegal to use for the 2005 competition season. If this rule applies to the camera then it must apply to anything else in the KOP, right? So if a team decides to add some mechanism to their robot at their first competition and wants to use the KOP gearbox, or Skyway wheels, or the hall effect sensors, or even IFI spikes or speed controllers from the kit, they're just out of luck? Could a team who didn't ship these now-useless parts trade them with another team with the same parts, and then count them as off-the-shelf?
I came to the same conclusion, and brought this up in the lead inspectors' teleconference yesterday. No consensus was reached, though some others seemed to express the same reservations. I've e-mailed frcteams@usfirst.org with a request for clarification; hopefully the GDC will get a chance to rethink the Q&A response.