pic: Track System

[Travis Covington]

Originally Posted by 114ManualLabor

I did a bit of thinking, and based on this idea, your robot is illegal, just like every other team out there. You pay for individual parts to be machined, WITH THE INTENT OF ASSEMBLING THEM together, correct? How is this any different? The only change is that an adult mentor (Sam from outback) is designing them, and letting multiple teams build them. The only cost if for the individual pieces and materials. So my point is simple that if these are illegal, as they come in pieces, and you have to work closely with outback, then so are every single robot that competed in Champs.

You don't seem to understand the issue here. We didn't pay a dime for any of our manufacturing. Hell, we did more than 50% of it ourselves. I didn't pick up the phone and make a call to my local robot parts distributor telling them to ship me one of their new drivetrains they have sitting on the shelves... (edited)

I am comparing outback manufacturing to andymark, where we will assume both companies will be making and selling robot parts to be used as FIRST legal components on their competition robots.

Never once did I say the teams who had them this year were using them illegally... I am just mentioning the possible issues that would arise IF AND WHEN you try and sell and distrubute them in a manner similar to AM, Banebots, etc. I brought this all up simply because I was under the impression that you would be selling these next year, as you noted the prices and the intent to make these available (at a cost) to all teams interested.

There is a HUGE difference there.