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Originally Posted by dlavery
Don't let bad information be the cause of a lot of heartburn at the competitions.
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We're still weeks away from competition and I've already got heartburn.
First, consider
this Q&A response. For the sake of avoiding word-mincing, note that this question is clearly about "strip[ping] the robot of many expensive but easily installed COTS items before shipment" and "bring[ing] all those COTS items under R35". The answer indicates that wheels removed from a robot are considered COTS, a disassembled cRIO is considered COTS, and a Toughbox assembled per the directions is considered to be COTS.
Now consider
this more recent Q&A response. I certainly wouldn't consider any part that has been previously installed on a robot to be "brand new", particularly not something that is obviously in a different form factor than typically presented by the vendor (in the case of the Toughbox example).
I'd like to call myself "reasonably astute", as required by the second link, but I can't reconcile these responses for the life of me. Help?