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Originally Posted by FierceRabbit
Say a rural (new) team with a $8,000 6 week material budget has the opportunity buy this system. This would give them a huge advantage on the playing field. Not only could they focus more on designing a device for the "Game", but they would be a competitor with the veteran teams. For once the teams that have $200,000 dollar spending budgets and unlimited resources may not have everything going for them anymore. The level of competition may be set higher...is this a bad thing? You scared?
You people B!tch and complain about following the rules, and doing what FIRST says. Call FIRST and ask them, I would bet they would be all for these systems. The bottom line is that a pre-built system like this will create more opportunities for smaller low-budget teams, but also create more exciting game play. Get over it. If you have a problem with a pre-built system, dont buy them, design your own, just hope that the team that purchases a gearbox or a track system doesnt run your robot into the wall.
fiercerabbit
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As harsh a your statement might be, I agree fully. I am on a low budget team that is planning on making some leaps forward in manufacturing our own parts. Unfortunetly sponsers might be more likely to give money to a successful program. I know If I were a sponser, I would want to give my money to a team likely to get results. Many teams like the one I am on, might purchase some of these premanufactured parts until we get the infrastucture to design our own. I am on team 1516, we get a majority of our money from ROP, if we got some better results, they would be more likely to fund our program. Hopefully someday we will be able to get a CNC Machine, until then we will do what we can.
Greg