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Re: Mystery Sprockets

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What ever happened to the idea that part of the challenge (and part of the fun) of FIRST was creating your own design out of raw materials? If we do nothing but rely on bolt-on solutions, then we are largely relying on the engineering efforts of others, and doing little true engineering of our own. And that, I submit, lessens the experience for all involved.

The real world does not go together like an Erector set. FIRST robots should not either.
Perhaps they merely want to focus their efforts on the hard stuff, and buy the easy stuff off the shelf. Time is short, and perhaps they have financial but not human (or machine) resources. He was just asking.

But, I agree with your final point.

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