Mechanical Vs Electrical

[Jay Shah]

This is how it works on team 610:

Mechanical is defined as fabrication, design (excluding cad) and assembly.
Electrical is defined as sensor work, wiring, IFI component placement and integration with mechanical stuff (such as if there is a turret, the electrical people have to work to make sure there is slack in the wires and also that it's not going to get tangled with other robots)

Mechanical basically always has more say than electrical. Generally the electrical system is based around the mechanical system (which is designed with little electrical consideration)

So far it has worked reasonably well; however we always run into the issue near the end of season were the electrical is running behind because the mechanical is running behind. The end result: our programmers suffer.