[Joseph Smith]

The best thing you can do to allow room for change is to make sure you have 10+ pounds of weight to work with. I know this is difficult, but having some freedom weight-wise really let us keep improving our robot throughout the season. Our changes were minor; changing the flaps in our magazine from L-channel to C-channel, changing our intake drop ramp from sheet aluminum to carbon fiber, changing the mounting method of our shooter wheel to facilitate faster fixes, and adding a feeder station intake that we hardly ever used. All of these changes added a little weight but we bagged with a 105-pound robot. By the time we were at champs we were 115 pounds.