Behind The Design 2012

[Tom Line]

In 2012, Team 1718 asked for and received authorization to attempt to produce a new 'Behind The Design' book. After searching for submissions and compiling the responses, the team realized that we didn't have enough material to put together a book that could do the previous Behind The Design books justice. So the team decided to take another route.

Instead of a novel, the team decided to release the sections that were completed as a serial book: a new section would be released each week in December, leading up to the 2013 kickoff. Much of the information in this first release has been discussed elsewhere, so we considered this our "Beta Test". Another new section on a different robot will be released next week.

Thanks to teams 67, 341, 971, 1218, Richard Wallace, and AndyMark for their help in putting this together.

Please give us feedback. We've never tried something like this, and we're very interested in how the community thinks we can improve it. Enjoy!

Behind the Design: Installment 1