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Originally Posted by sanddrag
If we did not start ordering and manufacturing on kickoff day, we simply wouldn't finish.
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Perhaps a better way to put this is: Be sure your design is almost complete before building anything. If design takes a week, that's OK.
I can't claim to be from a powerhouse team (but we were very lucky this year), but we're working on it. How? Well, not with fancy CNC machinery and gobs of cash. More like hard work and stick-to-it-iveness.
ANY team can be a powerhouse. It is not the budget or facility that defines this, it is the ingenuity and drive of the team.
Sometimes we hear members of other teams say things like "sure, if we had xxxx we could build a good robot too" - but that's not true. A poor design, perfectly executed, is still junk. A great design, built with hacksaws and hand drills, will always perform well.