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Re: YMTC - Manufacturing
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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
ok, you can design and build a proof of concept mechanism, or even prototypes, but the other rule says you must 'design' all the parts you need after the kickoff meeting.
If you copy a tranmission design from CD that another team posted in a white paper from previous years, or even if you want to re-use a transmission that your team designed two years ago, it sure sounds to me like FIRST is saying "No! we want this years team to design anything that is not in the KOP and is not COTS themselves"
And I take that to mean, even if they have to reinvent what the team has done in previous years.
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I read 'design' as used in <R16> to mean 'decide how to build'. Design doesn't have to mean 'invent' or even 'improve'.
As a wise man once said, "steal from the best, then invent the rest!"
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Last edited by Richard Wallace : 01-09-2006 at 09:58.
Reason: getting the quote right, adding the link
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