Advice for Rookie You?

[frcguy]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

avoid chief delphi

Yes. The evil Chief Delphi machine will begin to consume you and your non-robotics life thread by thread. First hand experience .

[Chak]

#35 chain has a pitch of .375, not .35.

[Aeglos]

Don't ever believe anyone that says mounting electronics upside- down is a "good idea" or that "we have the right stuff to do it- it'll work this year".

Many fallen encoder wires later....

[JohnFogarty]

If you design a drivetrain you should design drivetrains to run with an even number of links in the chain.

[Jonny_Jee]

I'd tell him to put down the cup of noodle and get to work. Also, observe what veteran members and mentors are doing closely, note their successes and failures with detail.

And for goodness' sake, meaningfully name your cad files.