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Originally posted by patrickrd
Actually, upon further consideration I will make a deal to any teams out there interesting in constructing an omni-drive. Here's the deal (of course, let me know someone if this breaks a FIRST rule, I will not do this if it does):
  • I will provide your team with quantity six of a 5" version of the omni-wheel above... I've started the design for this, and I plan on making about 12 of them at the end of the semester. I will make CAD and engineering drawings available to ALL TEAMS asap so any team with sufficient machining capability can make their own.
  • I will ask your team to pay for the material cost of these wheels. The cost should be somewhere between $50 and $100 for the set of six.
  • The catch: I will only do this for at most TWO teams -- those who demonstrate feasiblility of implementing an omni-drive for their 2004 robot. (through a written report -- I'm leaving this open ended. The most convincing cases get the wheels.)

That's the deal. The deadline's is Dec. 15. I will send them out at latest the first week of competition (you will have all the dimensions well before to do designs).

- Patrick
Patrick -

Depending on the exact schedule you plan for construction of the wheels, as I interpret the rules, this may not be allowed. Your message is not clear about when you will be constructing the wheels - right after your December 15 deadline, or during the first week of the competition.

Under the current FIRST rules (emphasized to point out that we don't yet know what will be in the final version of the rules for 2004), it would be illegal if you start manufacturing the wheels prior to the kick-off, and any team using your wheels would be in violation of the rules. All materials and components on the robot must be manufactured ONLY during the competition period (other than those bought as straight off-the-shelf commercial commodity items, e.g. you can purchase and use a Banner sensor that was actually manufactured by the factory earlier). Wheels that you manufacture prior to the start of the competition cannot legally be used on your robot, or by any other team. You can share your designs all you want to. But you cannot, and other teams cannot, start to actually build the wheels prior to kick-off.

-dave
 


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