Design - is ChiefDelphi professional?

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Bharat Nain

I don't like these discussions because they dwell too deep into technicalities of things. The intent of all these rules is simply that teams don't build entire robots or entire components before the start of the build. Or program entire software modules. But this is a high school competition and some teams inevitably will use some small components that were designed before build. In the big scheme of things, the little stuff just won't matter. Besides, for most applications, taking a design/software code off somewhere won't just work by default. There is usually a lot of work involved in making it work. Instead of making the rulebook even more complex, I vote we keep things simple. Even if I were to get 1114's entire CAD book, it would be of no use to me for the next season. All I can do is learn from it.

But sometimes you can get so much more picking the minds of the best teams in FIRST and seeing the methods to their madness than you would be simply copying their ideas.
Besides which I always felt people get too caught up in the robot and don't see what really makes the teams function so well is the organization itself.