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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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Inside Sparky 384

Here at the Sparky 384 HQ, we have learned one thing well: planning helps prevent frustration, prevents relationships from breaking up, and also prevents those late night runs to Walgreen's for PeptoBismo.

At Sparky, we use a highly evolved form of decision making that not only makes the leaders lives easier, but also prevents one person from being targeted for an idea that didn't pan out at the competition. It's called a "survey". This "survey" helps us discover what our team wants in a robot.

After the patent pending "survey", we then go to the drawing boards (aka Clark's Office) to draw up plans. We are never done. As long as the robot isn't in the crate and off to FedEx, there is still time for changes. While this is a blessing, we have limited it's curse part by freezing certain parts of the design, such as the drive system and others.
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