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View Poll Results: How much planning goes into your robot?
Drafting - None or very little pre-assembly planning - Hey, We're Optimistic. 27 12.39%
Drafting - Moderate - Only essential systems are drawn up. 94 43.12%
Drafting - Extreme - You could drive the robot before it's been built! 73 33.49%
Calculations - None or very little - We live on the edge. 18 8.26%
Calculations - Moderate - Yeah, we did a few to get some things right. 107 49.08%
Calculations - Extreme - Is that an African or European Swallow? 59 27.06%
Robot!?!? You mean we're supposed to be building a robot!? 30 13.76%
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Re: How much planning goes into your robot?

We don't usually spend a lot of time drafting, but we model with cardboard. After the robot is built with cardboard, we draw up dimesioned drawings and go from there.
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Re: How much planning goes into your robot?

We CADed the frame, the Gearboxes, and I have at least 30 pages of notes(typed, CADed, written, or scribbled) detailing our autonomous system. We did calculations for the drivetrain, and manipulators. Everythign has at least a sketch. There are probably manipulator CAD drawings, but that's not really my part of the robot. I guess our team would fall under moderate calculations, and moderate draftings category. We don't have a cad model down to the last bolt of our robot, but we are doing ok.
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Re: How much planning goes into your robot?

Our team in the past has had sketches and ideas, with a FEW drawing with numbers that disapeared somewhere after the design decision making was over with. This year, we handled things a bit different, making cardboard models of the robot, and I've been marking everythign about the drive train out on paper, running whatever math I can (trig) and using a pencil and calculator like a madman making sure everything works and all that.
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Re: How much planning goes into your robot?

we created a lego model, agreed it was a good design, and built... built= measure...cut...fit...(if it doesnt fit, cut again or file)...get next piece...repeat...overweight? ..drill....drill....drill.....drill....

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