Turning back the clock 2012

[Alex.q]

I wish I hadn't been so willing to give up on what I knew would work, but hey, one person can't (and perhaps shouldn't) force everyone to do things his way.

I wish we had formed a subteam to build a bridge manipulator.

I wish we had finished our shooter earlier so we could have actually tested it to be able to improve compression, put on only one set of wheels, etc

I wish our collector fed directly into the shooter.

Non-essential but I wish we had designed a stinger, a drop down collector, and put less emphasis on being able to drive over the barrier, which we were not able to do anyway once everything was assembled.

I wish we had built real bridges to test with. rather than light plywood ones.

Additionally, we had considered a wider ball collector, but did not think we would be able to prevent jamming. I'm not really sure how teams were able to do this, could someone who did it well explain their design? Thanks.