February 15th – Team Improvement/Brainstorm

  • 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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