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From September to December each year, we have "Pi Tech", where we answer all those questions so that during build season we can focus on the myriad new questions that pop up. We meet once or twice a week and perform tasks normally required to build a robot.

For example, in 2010 Pi Tech we wired up a complete robot control system on a piece of Lexan. Everything to make the Pi Tech robot chassis (build by the drivetrain team, of course) able to drive was included, from battery to motors and everything in between.

So on January 8, 2011, the electrical team knew exactly what they had to do to make the real robot work.