We're going to do the same as last year: we'll pull a massive all weekender (we meet to depart for the competion at 7:30am on Saturady and go to sleep at 7pm on Sunday). Following the kickoff, we go over to someone's house and dump all of the kit parts onto thier living room rug and start brainstromming. On that weekend, which ends up being an exec meeting after the first 6 hours, we decide on a drive system and what game strategy we want to persue. On Monday we'll inform the rest of the team and finalize from there.
New approach --> !!! No design idea can be presented without coresponding scale drawings in CAD or on graph paper !!!
Our goal is to have the ENTIRE robot on paper before we start. We're hoping that with a clear plan we can build the robot in 1-2 weeks (seriously, we could have built last year's robot in a week had be CADed everything). It will save us time for making spares, we'll be focused and we'll be able to distribute our tasks better.
Our current schedule is: 1 week design. 4 weeks build. 1 week test. [if we can't design it in one week, its too complicated to build in 4, so we leave it for next year

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