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Unread 07-12-2008, 20:09
CraigHickman
 
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Re: Community/Open Source Chassis Project

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Originally Posted by sanddrag View Post
Back when I started in 2002, we didn't get any of this handed to us. We had to figure it out ourselves. It was hard, and we learned a lot. What good is this program if robots are just entirely put together from a kit and instructions? We're losing the design and analysis aspect of the competition here.
Agreed. The goal of only releasing the CAD, and requiring any teams that actually build it or modify it to also share the CAD is to promote advancement and collaboration of a design. We're not giving them a box of parts; we're giving them a vague design (that probably has errors somewhere, I haven't spent much time on this design...), and letting them decide on the implementation.