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FTC Mentor - The Robot Corps 7491
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Re: FRC Design- Tips, Tricks, and Effective Methods

We were lucky enough to have Aren mentor our team when he was at Iowa State, and he had really effective design techniques that helped us build one heck of a bot. Some of the ideas I encourage my FTC team that I mentor to use include building with subsystems to allow subsystems to be built independent of each other and to be implemented into the robot as a whole (kinda like cooking where you make a sauce and a chicken, then combine them into one). The other idea was to use a standard building system (like what the Vex Versaframe or FTC Tetrix parts) to allow for building/attachments with minimal tools/shop.
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