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Originally Posted by Chris is me
I think this is a false dichotomy. Simple and elegant seem basically disconnected.
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I claim knowledge paradox on that one: if you remember way back to when you were a 1st or 2nd year team, the two are probably like black and white. Sure, some new teams have superb mentors or students who have good experience in building machines for similar scenarios. Yet given the original poster's tone and context, I don't think that's the case.
The divide is typically made with a sense of time: if you have 3 units of time and 1 design iteration takes 1 unit of time, would you rather iterate the design of the drive train or the manipulator given that you cannot do both? Since
many first and second year teams still show up to competition without even the first iteration completely built, I'd say it's a valid analogy. If this question were posed earlier in the year, there
would be extra time, but alas there is not.