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Re: Creating and selling parts.

I think this is a great concept, but I see one problem...where do we draw the line of what a team can buy? If a team can buy a sprocket, why not a gearbox, if they can buy a gearbox, than why not a drivetrain, chassis, arm, modular appendages, heck...why not a whole robot. In my opinion, one of the greatest parts of FIRST is seeing how all of the different teams tackled the same problem in different ways. If there is one "easy, and proven, premade part", then most teams will use it, and part of that initial challenge will be take away. So, yeah...before teams start jumping on this, I think that some regulations would need to be put in place as to what exactly a team can buy, so that we dont have teams mass producing subsystems and selling them to everyone. Of course everyone would want a 2004 Technokat arm, and a Wildstang swerve drive but how fun would that be to watch if all of the robots had them? Not very.

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