[EricH]

Originally Posted by LedLover96

How do the sub-teams make the whole robot compatible? Say the shooter/lifter needed X amount of space, and the bridge lowering mechanism need to use some of the area that the shooter/lifter space is using. When it is all done with and you have two mechanism that need valuable space on your robot, which gets presidence? These are some issues that 3397 ran into this season, so this thread is very helpful for us too.

This is part of what I was talking about with the subteams work together on the whole concept/design, then every time it looks like there's a conflict of space or a tough interface, both subteams involved get together and talk it out until a solution is found.

In this case, as soon as someone figured out the problem, you should have started talking. Could the brige mechanism be moved? What about the shooter/lifter? Could you link them somehow? Or redesign one to avoid the other? All sorts of options if both subteams talk it over.