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[EricH]

Originally Posted by yash101

Kinda in the middle. A good team will show GP and not copy the idea.

Oh?

"Steal from the best, and invent the rest!"--I want to say that was Dave Lavery, but I do know it was on CD a while back, and is in the spotlight list.

This is part of being a professional--if you're stumped, and someone displays an idea you didn't think about, you look at whether or not it's a viable option, and, MORE IMPORTANTLY in FIRST, what you can learn from it as you adapt it to your robot's design.


Oh, and this one's for Andrew: Don't forget about the 2009 shooter-dumper conversions. Or a number of claws in 2011 on the West Coast that looked suspiciously like a particular highly successful 2007 claw.