Conflicting Rules?

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Tomy,
It is easy to confuse people with text taken out of context. The section you reference in your first post includes this...
Pondering software issues to be resolved, researching general case solutions, discussing solutions with teammates, collecting raw materials, sketching mechanisms, preparing tools, and outlining high-level descriptions of software algorithms are all reasonable activities before the scheduled build period. However, completing detailed dimensioned drawings of specific parts, and any actual fabrication of any hardware items intended to go on the actual competition ROBOT is prohibited outside of the approved fabrication periods. On the software side, writing actual lines of code, verification of syntax, final debugging, etc would all be considered development of the final software implementation, and must be completed during the approved fabrication periods.

In other words, you may think, write, test code provided that "writing actual lines of code, verification of syntax, final debugging, etc" must be completed during the approved periods. Think of code as a modified part. You decide on a modification and plan how to build and install said part then bring the materials with you when at competition or during access periods and make the final assy during those legal times.