Yet another new mentor question - how much to order preseason?

[pandamonium]

Originally Posted by tjwolter

"Doing" or getting the parts for? You can't actually build anything that will go into the comp machine before 7 Jan. And the actual basic electronics don't seem to be an obstacle, we are second year in FRC but have a good pool of students with experience in speed controllers etc. Now, the tricky stuff with sensor integration, on board Arduino stuff, sure. But we have no idea what we will be building yet. We are a very focused team. Last year we had a finished machine in the middle of week 5. It promptly broke, true, but we still had time for everything to be solid before Bag and Tag.
T. Wolter

If you are in fact doing 2 complete robots you can start making parts for the practice one such as assembling the electronics. Even if your team is really good at this it is still a few days worth of work that can be saved.