[Rynocorn]

Originally Posted by MICHAELABICK

We have a mechanical director(me) who handles all of the coordination of the robot build. We start with a general picture of what we want the robot to look like based on our game strategy. This year we came up with a design almost exactly like 1986's robot. We then start prototyping while adjusting our original design based on our prototypes. This year by week 2 we realized a climber was out of our resources. Additionally, we thought that we could build an overall better robot by focusing on cycling, though we left an easy spot for our intake to attach(based on our prototypes). I coordinate this with the design team(which I also head).

My team does basically the exact same thing. The only difference is our team set our expectations lower and never considered making a 30 point climber and actually decided to make a 10 pt hanger only in the last week. We usually don't work on the subsystem until we can fit it into the whole design. I act as the "mechanical director" and communicate with the different groups and help/take over the projects that are falling behind.

But for the rest of the process, it is the same. This process and structure has worked well for us in this past year as it is different than in 2011 and 2012 for us. And we look of continue this method next year and beyond.

Just wanted to put in another teams info, seems like this method is the general consensus.