[techtiger1]

Dan that was a great break down obviously something Swapthing does works they have the trophy case to prove it. 1251 usually starts out after watching the kickoff video by breaking up in to groups with various mentors and comming up with what each group wants the robot to do and some come with a rough sketch. After this there are many brain storming sessions on various designs that come up and finally a compromise is reached. Then with the final rough design we get together with our main mechanical students and mentors and start to CAD out every aspect we can. Next, is usually the prototyping stage and then we usually rebuild it strong enough and light enough to where we want it. Finally, everything is finailzed about the design and production is started. The electrical team works seperate for a bit on the board which is usually a bolt on piece and it all comes together once the frame is in the building. Thats basically a rough overview of what goes on. Usually we build two robots one being a prototype/practice bot the other being a final product in general we spend about 2 weeks cading and protoyping.