It's been a bit different every year. For 2016, Saturday and Monday were pure rules and strategy. Tuesday and Thursday we began concept designs and prototyping (both CAD and real-world). By early in the second week we had a solid chassis design, and the manipulators were down to a couple of candidates each. This worked well for us, and we're going to shoot for about the same schedule (or just a hair faster so we can fall back to this) for 2017.
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Originally Posted by Hitchhiker 42
Throughout week 1, our whiteboards get extensively dirty drawing up concepts..
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Same here -- it is difficult to imagine our strategy and early design process without whiteboards and cellphone cameras. Chalkboards were available going back several generations, but film and development was expensive - Polaroid was around long before FRC, but even more expensive! If you wanted to keep records of brainstorming sessions before about 1990, you were probably using flip charts and marks-a-lots. (really large pads of paper and sharpies for those too young to know those terms).