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Re: How do you make your second robot?
Our team built two (nearly) identical robots for the first time this year.
I think there were three key factors that made it possible:
1) we had sufficient resources (people, skills, space, & funding)
2) our design was guided by strategic priorities*, and
3) we built the two robots simultaneously, and did not decide which one was which (competition 'bot or practice 'bot) until bag day. Strategic priorities drove that decision.
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*Our process for developing strategic priorities would require a longer discussion. We borrowed heavily from approaches published by successful teams to find our way.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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