Although your strategy and mechanisms are intertwined sometimes there are mesures where you need to think of a strategy that is outside of what your mechanisms are capable of doing..
If all my robot can do is pick up soccer balls, lets just say our strategy around designing our machine is to go pick up as many balls as we can and put the in goals. While desiging our machine (Under protest) all around that one principle, it is also key to think of other ways to use your robot at a competition..
So yes strategy is the same as mechanisms, and no it is different. Just my thought on the matter.
Josh
Team 501
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