That seems very reasonable. Back in the early years of our competition, FIRST had fairly simple rules. More recently, the rules have generally become more complex each year. For several years now we have had increasingly intricate rules aimed at keeping our robots "handmade". These take the form of limits on total cost of purchased materials and components, limits on the cost of individual components, and a rather lawyerly definition of what is a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) component. You can find the rules governing robot construction for 2006 FIRST robotics competition
here.
I am really drawn to the idea of replacing a large portion of our robot rules with the simpler requirement that the robot must be handmade.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)