pic: Team 418's Robot

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Originally Posted by David Dawson

It frustrates me that chief delphi as a whole automatically assumes a robot isnt following the rules when a picture is posted. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this bot assuming they used 4x banebots and one fp. That dewalt you see is a gear box, there is a paper on how to make them on CD media. If you don't understand it, don't assume its wrong.

I did not assume that they were doing something illegal. In fact I asked a question "is there a legal motor hiding inside of that yellow case" because I figured that it might just be a gear box and the FP or bane bot wasn't visible. Unfortunately as an inspector I saw many teams come to competition with illegal motors. I'd prefer (and presumably so would the teams in question) to point out a possible issue BEFORE they get to a regional so that they can prepare.

-Luke