FYI: Fisher Price motors now up on IFI.

Technical Motors
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Hey guys,

Just wanted to let anyone looking know that the FP motors are finally up on IFI. http://www.ifirobotics.com/first-store.shtml

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We just bought two today :slight_smile:

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Great Job to the Robonauts 118 for making this issue a FIRST priority. This is the first year FP’s have ever been easily available which is great news for teams !

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Pardon my ignorance, but I wasn’t aware 118 had anything to do with this?

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http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62455

Shortly after this thread, FIRST made an update that they will look into obtaining FPs as backups

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and do you have some information that there is a cause-and-effect relationship here?

Not to take anything away from the Lucien (which I would never do, because then his brother would beat me up, and then I would have to drag out the pictures from our last trip to New Orleans, and then Kris Verdeyen would have to explain the beads, and then things would just get ugly), but sometimes a coincidence is just a coincidence.

One of the things that I have learned from working with FIRST for several years is that there are LOTS of communications pathways into the organization, and many of them are not seen by the CD community. To give appropriate credit to FIRST, they do listen to the feedback they get and a very large percentage of the decisions they make are motivated by the communications they receive from the teams, sponsors, corporations, mentors, vendors, schools, donors, volunteers, etc. In most cases, when they make a change it is because they are hearing about a topic from multiple members of the community. Usually, the diversity of the input sources is a good indicator of the severity of the issue. On the bigger issues, it is almost a guarantee that they are hearing about them from lots of folks, through lots of channels. When they do make changes in response to our input, they may not always cite the source for the change (nor do I think they should). So unless we know for a fact that a specific comment resulted in a specific change, we should be careful about giving (or taking) credit for some of the things that happen with the FIRST program.

-dave

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