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How many people do you have on your teams?
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about 20 total
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What is your subteam breakdown like? How many programmers, how many designers.
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We haven't been too good about having specific subteams, since not all students are there every day. We divide up more along the lines of what work can be done that day.
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When do you start building in some capacity? When do you have something drivable?
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Prototyping starts right away, and keeps going until we get a workable design...if we're lucky we can use our prototype mechanisms/robot (if it's that complete) to work on programming most of build season. We like to have something driving and playing with game pieces by week 3 or 4 at the latest,
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How many people participate in the nitty-gritty of turning concepts into blueprints?
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As many as I can cajole into doing it
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How much time do you spend training?
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Not enough, if by training you mean learning how to operate the robot.
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At what point in the 6 weeks is your robot "complete?" (in the context of fully-functional)
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We try really hard to have it mostly done (fully functional) a week before it needs to be put away in it's bag/crate.
Of course the really good teams do it all quite differently...they are prototyping and improving stuff all 4 months of robot season. They get their practice robot built by week 3 or so, and build the competition robot as late as possible (week 5 or 6) to incorporate as many design improvements as possible. And they keep "training" and improving the design using the practice robot, right up to Championships.