- We’re WACO, not Calamari
- Spend more time designing the robot
- Teach everyone how to CAD model
- Study other teams’ robots and gather databases of mechanical components
- Communication is key
- Pro/con ideas from EVERYONE
- More involvement from coaches in design process
- Design must include integration of various components
- Building Phase
- Assign tasks AFTER design process
- Say no during design, not during building
- Complete implementation and testing of design before attempting to improve/tweak
- Testing Phase
- Testing of robot sooner
- Testing, not playtime
- Spend more time testing
- Test every component
- Stick with given assignments and not bounce from project to project
- Community outreach
- Demonstrate robot to sponsor officials
- Team management
- Brainstorming process
- Prevent bad ideas from getting momentum
- Prevent road to Abaleen
- Details
- Belt drives
- NEVER SAY!
- It’ll be fine!
- We did this before!
- Practice dates/times
- Wednesday
- Sync Calendars
- Daily meeting structure
- Written action items
- Inspire award
- Actually read the rules to the competition
- Spend last 10 minutes of practice documenting what was accomplished
Debrief:
Cons:
- Design
- Communication
Pros:
- Recruitment
- Preparation for the future
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