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Re: Efficient Design approach
I think that in order for the whole team to work efficiently, you should all start on the same page. If you come up with your basic design, you should be able to plan out how big your electrical board and other components should be so that the fabricators and electricians can get to work quickly. CAD is very useful, not just for part creation, but also space management (even if its just a bunch of blocks representing subsystems).

So basically what I am suggesting is that you plan the space in your robot from the get go, and make a decision on robot form that you will stick to early.
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