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Originally Posted by saihla
Completely missed the fact that we needed a B.O.M.!!! Everything we have on the bot is FIRST approved in the manual, but not recorded. How precise do they really need it? They want weights and prices of individual parts...? Do we need to record the parts that they sent us? What about parts that were donated, can we record the price as zero? Is there actually a chance of disqualification here if we make errors or does it just make the judges' jobs a bit harder?
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First off, I'd check Section 8 "The Robot" of the manual. FIRST's rules regarding the BOM can be found there. I wouldn't worry too much about precision. The cost can only be for the smallest commercially available piece. For example, if I use a square foot of Lexan, but Lexan only comes in 4x8 sheets, I have to record the price of the whole sheet. Do the best that you can, and it won't be a problem. Since you probably can't estimate how many feet of stock you used, I'd look up the prices, so you can quickly calculate the costs on Thursday. Other things though you can probably do now.