Opinion Poll: Proliferation of Prefbricated Parts

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Originally Posted by Ginger Power

Hopefully they will make these improvements through the use of machine tools with the assistance of professional engineers and machinists who know how to work them.

That's the thing. Once you need those sorts of tools it becomes a project bigger than the 6 weeks or the students aren't solo on the really more complex tools if it's just those 6 weeks. Also people do just send parts out to be made professionally.

So really to those teams with the ability to deeply optimize you have something going on there bigger than FIRST.
There really isn't much in FIRST to reward or penalize for custom fabrication.