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Originally Posted by GreyingJay

The real answer to your question is: to take your team to the "next level", you need to start working through a proper engineering process.

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Design Requirements - Based on all the above, choose what you are going to focus on. Lock this down early to prevent scope creep. For example, we decided early on that our robot would be low bar capable, would shoot low goals, use vision assist for an autonomous low goal mode, be FAST, and be able to handle all the ground obstacles. It was tempting at various stages to try to add a climber, high goal capability. a sally port door opener, etc. But we knew we didn't have the resources to build a Swiss Army Knife on wheels. We kept our focus on the design requirements we agreed on, knowing that if we had time later, we could go back and iterate.

If there is anything to take away from this thread, this statement is it. Understand how to set requirements and design to those requirements.

That's good engineering.