[JesseK]

If you know that you will make a minibot, then it is very important to put some form of thought into the deployment mechanism early on since you may have to order pneumatics, electronics, or other components that have a 3-5 day lead time or ship time. Thinking about it in Week 4 is too late is many cases, especially if the build schedule is delayed due to weather.

I only say this because the "Minibot Rate of Climb" thread got me thinking about the sequence of events needed to successfully deploy on the FRC field.