I just want to emphasize a few points that I found particularly interesting in this post...
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Originally Posted by Potato
As a consequence, during the build season, we were unable to get very involved in the design process - we just gave our mentors general ideas of what we wanted to build (i.e, a scissor lift), and they worked out all of the specifics (i.e. setting up our electronics and positioning our motors to actuate our lift) for us and told us what to build, which seemed pretty unfair to our mentors.
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I absolutely love your attitude that build/design should be a partnership between mentors and students.
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Originally Posted by Potato
To remedy this, we're planning on holding classes on basic design and building before this year's build season begins. However, we're not exactly sure of what we should try to learn to become capable of being more involved in the designing/building process. Do you guys have any recommendations?
Thanks!
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Wait... so you saw a problem and you are trying to fix it? AMAZING! Thank you, 1000 times thank you.
As was suggested, check out the white papers. Also consider partnering with another local team and sharing training. It might be that your team is short on programming knowledge but has considerable knowledge in how to effectively wire a robot. Share those resources among teams and gain their knowledge and experience too. An FRC team is not an island, we can't stand alone.