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Originally Posted by sanddrag
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.
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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.