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Re: Build season week 1

I realized that it is not clear from my earlier post, but our week 1 prototyping was primarily for the purpose of determining the "difficulty" of various manipulator approaches. Of course, we always want to remember the key points were from these efforts!

As I read through the responses, I realize that someone should more clearly state that the design process should generally run:
  1. Understand the rules (requirements)
  2. Plan your strategy (that is: which requirements/rules/scoring opportunities take priority)
  3. Prepare two or more designs
  4. Evaluate designs against your strategy and priorities; pick a design.
  5. As problems emerge, evaluate proposed design changes against your strategy and real-world findings
Most teams should probably be in step 3-5 overall at the end of the first week; we have been both significantly ahead of and significantly behind this in various years. We currently strive to be at step 5 for the drive system and step 3 or 4 for manipulators by the end of week 1.
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