So your original robot design was.....

[TimCraig]

Originally Posted by Andrew Blair

My fingers have suffered from trying to count the revisions...

My fingers have just suffered from numerous cuts and scrapes.

[Sachiel7]

Our team has more or less stuck to our original design.
Our strategy focus has also stayed the same, a highly offensive scoring robot, and a fairly strong defensive drive base.

[LightWaves1636]

In reality, I don't think our team actually had an original design. All the group meeting were pretty much planning and opinions and strategies. We're pretty much going with the flow and see how it turns out. A harvester is finally in the process, a launcher is finally being worked on, and a hopper, *gasp*, is finally being figured out and made. this all started yesterday. Programming did a lot of work for the past three weeks.

[IraJason]

First, I would like to say to LightWaves1636 that I am sorry that I was overly harsh in the beginning. I believe that FIRST and Chief Delphi should be a fun place where anyone can join and be accepted, no matter who they are, and not feel alienated by others. I guess I kind of overreacted a little when I first saw this topic...

Anyway, back to the original topic, for our design, we actually broke up into about 6 different groups and had each come up with a different design idea. We then had them all present their ideas to the team as a whole and hung them all up in our lab. We picked apart each design and incorperated them into the robot as we went along, so our robot doesn't actually resemble any of the orginal designs... just bits and peices of each...

[LightWaves1636]

Originally Posted by IraJason

First, I would like to say to LightWaves1636 that I am sorry that I was overly harsh in the beginning. I believe that FIRST and Chief Delphi should be a fun place where anyone can join and be accepted, no matter who they are, and not feel alienated by others. I guess I kind of overreacted a little when I first saw this topic...

Anyway, back to the original topic, for our design, we actually broke up into about 6 different groups and had each come up with a different design idea. We then had them all present their ideas to the team as a whole and hung them all up in our lab. We picked apart each design and incorperated them into the robot as we went along, so our robot doesn't actually resemble any of the orginal designs... just bits and peices of each...

coolie, thx, I accept, i was just really intrested in if other teams stuck to original ideas and see how much they changed. Like us, we're stuck on one path because well our team couldn't get it together until like last week. I walked into the classroom to join in the design idea and Josh said midget with a potato gun and jessica was saying that we'll just put cardbox around him and I just went "what?" then they started the whole thing in more detail.

I think we have a lot of prototypes of well, everything except the design for the harvester happened once which was pretty cool when I drove the bot around collecting balls. The hopper, well they're trying to get pneumatics and it keeps launching the lid off(they'll figure it out), the launcher is on it's way and BTW team 1636 will like to thank Mark of team 358 with helping with our launcher, and programming has been well, bored since our autonomous code can't fully be tested correctly without everything, but we come up with ideas to pass the time if we can't really be of any help to the building (too many people crowding to help build).

[234smidget]

Originally Posted by LightWaves1636

I wasn't involve in the design because I had to get started on programming but I heard our team originally wanted a midget with a potato launcher.

my team also brought that idea up about the human inside the bot and i was the one who was going to be inside lol idea but our original design is bout the same as our design now
(plz no one take offense to my name that what my team member call me or something close to that

[Shu Song]

Our design stayed amazing on track. Not much changed from drawing board to cad to assembly. I've really noticed that our team is really great with picking a strategy and sticking with it (not to gloat or anything).

It sounds like that this strategy is inherent flawed, mainly that if there is a flaw in the strategy at the beginning, that flaw stays there. But it also carries with it huge advantages: everyone is always fully supportive of the original idea(whether they originally supported it or not) and does his/her best to make it work. And because our design is gotten by concensus, everyone has had a say in the strategy and no one should feel like their view wasn't heard. If there are people constantly second guessing the plan while we are finalizing design and building, then we get nothing done. Plus if you perfect the strategy at the beginning, you need not worry about flaws propogating.

[Wolf103FM]

Originally Posted by LightWaves1636

I wasn't involve in the design because I had to get started on programming but I heard our team originally wanted a midget with a potato launcher.

haha, we had something like that come up today, a kid in a power wheels truck throwing balls around

[Bharat Nain]

Our robot design was to do everything. We decided to ditch the wheel and gearbox we use and fly... wait nvm. I can't say.