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Re: How long does your team plan?

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Originally Posted by M. Krass View Post
I'm remarkably surprised by the number of folks who've written something akin to, "We design the robot on Tuesday."
So am I. Guys, think first, then build. Strategy is everything. Spend a day or two (even a week) working out a strategy, then build to meet it. Watch your team score higher in the rankings (assuming decent partners).

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I can't believe that any single team can appreciably design an entire robot over the course of a single day. I'm interpreting those statements to be something more like, "We draw boxes on a whiteboard," or "We make it up as we go along."
Again, a bad thing to do. We take up to a week, first coming up with ideas, then evaluating them, then having small groups design a robot, then choosing one design for the robot.

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How long does it take for the folks who design everything in advance to work through the whole robot? If I work on nothing else, it takes me about four days to a design solidified enough to move onward to production.
Depends on the part. I'd guess about a week on average once the design is locked. However, when the part designs are locked depends on the part. The drive frame is the first thing to lock. (If you can't drive, you are pretty much useless on the field.) By then we have some idea about the rest of the robot, but then we have to design the other parts and lock those designs. In 2005, we didn't start until week 5, and we were complete other than some modifications to our arm's grabbing end and painting by ship date. 2006, we had a drivable frame before the shooter was locked down.
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