No Change Rule Yields More Openness

[archiver]

Posted by Bill Beatty at 02/25/2001 12:57 PM EST


Other on team #71, Team Hammond, from Team Hammond.


In Reply to: What do you mean by "No Changes in function"?
Posted by Raul on 02/25/2001 2:43 AM EST:



Raul

Yes, I believe that this year it would clearly be a violation of the rules to add an arm that was not on the original robot after the end of the six week period. I didn't state my posting very well, so I will try again.

FIRST this year has made it very clear that you cannot add or significantly modify devices to a robot. They overkilled it with the original rules and softened their position with M19 in update #3. M19 allows making replacement parts and altering parts, not adding whole new systems that did not exist before. The last paragraph pretty much says it all. If your original arm did not work, you can modify it/strengthen it so it will function as intended, but there is no way it could be interrupted that you can add a whole new arm when there was not originally an arm.

BTW, I asked about engineering and detailing. It is my understanding that all work must stop, even engineering, detailing, and sketching.

Maybe I am missing something here, but I don't think so. Comments anyone?

Regards

Mr. Bill