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Originally Posted by Cory
I sort of disagree.
Lots of teams would just take the CAD drawings of something they know works, and go replicate it. They're not going to learn anything, other than how to machine parts from a print.
A lot of teams would improve on the design however, but the teams who are likely to do so are already the ones who would be practicing iterative design in the first place.
This would be good in the event that the kit drive is not robust, reliable, or very good (ie: the banebots before the carrier plate fix).
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That factor will always exist, and does exist in almost everything. But the innovative teams that constantly come up with new designs and techniques could always use one another's ideas and modify them, to change them for the better and make an advanced system. It would almost be a contest to see who could make the best ______ drive and possibly the best OVERALL drive in terms of efficiency, weight, and cost.
I'm not saying that everybody will live by the above, I'm just saying the teams that like to improve and learn will always look elsewhere for inspiration.