How much planning goes into your robot?

[Jnadke]

Now, a question for the teams who voted extreme:

If you voted extreme for drafting, why did you feel the need to create accurate drawings of all robot components? Did it make the build process easier?

If you voted extreme for calculations, what did you use the equations on/from? If you voted here because of a custom circuit, no need to answer (although you're in the correct category).


I'm trying to get a survey of how competitive it has become. In general it seems that teams are sticking to High School level stuff. I'd venture that a few teams would fall under extreme for both categories, such as 45 and 111, who may have used differential equations in calculating gear ratios, or used special knowledge to create a custom circuit.