[Anupam Goli]

I understand that knowing and experiencing the fabrication process is important, and I would not be complaining about in house fabrication if it weren't for the attitude that building a robot is not about design, but fabrication. I don't know if I made it clear in the first post, but what is happening is that our team is not designing by engineering drawing or CAD. What we do is say what drivebase and type of manipulator we want and we come up with the dimensions while we are fabricating. As a result, the entire frame has parts mis-measured, inaccurate, and the robot does not work because things weren't pre designed, they were designed while being placed on the robot. As a senior on the team, I want to see my team go through the design process and design something before starting any fabrication.