Thanks for all the feedback guys. To address a few things:
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Originally Posted by DampRobot
In your schedule , you budgeted about a week for "conceptual design." Would this include prototyping?.
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As a 2nd year team, we still have very little funding. Hopefully this should change this year as we have a few prospective companies that we're talking with, but this year we had absolutely no money for prototypes. Our entire robot was built on $400, and after that and a single regional we were in the hole $700. Like I said, we're working on that.
I'll be taking a solidworks class this summer, and trying to convince other team members to do the same. The only others on our team who are proficient with CAD are mentors, so this will definitely be a good thing.
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Originally Posted by DampRobot
Your build phase seems surprisingly short. Although it depends on your resources and how heavily you rely on sponsors, I think build deserves at least a week more. Especially because you are a second-year team, there will be some nasty surprises when you try to build the robot. You will probably be required to re-machine or even re-design systems. I would strongly advise against machining too late.
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Thank you.
Most of our team members are homeschooled, as we are a 4H team unattached to a high school. As such while you would think it would be easier to get together, it's much more difficult because we're from all across the county. We're also a small team (~15 students). Hopefully we can do some heavy recruiting to make this less of an issue.