Team 2363 ball pickup prototype

[Dan Richardson]

Originally Posted by ToddF

Do not neglect to prototype your concepts. We learned some things that aren't so obvious just by looking at those designs.

One thing in particular to look for... not many of the RI3D robots demonstrated their ball pickup capability with legal bumpers installed. (This might have changed in the past couple days since I looked.)

This is true. However Ri3D 1.0 did mock up front bumpers and it didn't cause an issue with the intake in testing. It just didn't make our videos, in hindsight maybe it should have. One other note is that if you have the wide front configuration, there is a fairly large allowable gap between the two bumper segments.

To your first point, I agree! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE prototype designs you plan to implement! Andrew Rudolph said it best, "You don't have to prototype everything, just the things you want to work."