Mentor Leadership/Structure

Design lead - Eden and Brandon

Manufacturing lead - Quinton

Electrical lead - Taegen (with approval)

Code lead - Brennan

Project manager - Brennan

Managing priority list, big picture, deadlines

Try Spectrum’s PVC prototype kit
Start CAD while prototyping - just to map things out and get a better vision
- Blocky
- Expected to change
Design Reviews
- Structured reviews
- Internal
  - Generally every couple of days
  - Go through checklists and make sure everything has been reviewed before moving onto the next stage
- External
  - Have at each stage of the process - like 3 times or something?

Simplicity (num of motors, combining parts, degrees of freedom, foolproofing the assembly, etc.)
Manufacturing feasibility/process (designing within our manufacturing means)
Geometry (pathing, dead spots)
Packaging
- Max extension
- Maximum height
- Frame perimeter
Layout of mechanisms
Checking calculations
- Motor math
- C-C distances, pathing and accessible tensioning
Power budget (num of motors running at once, num of slots being used)
Electrical integration
- Sensors
- Wire routing
- Space for electrical components
COG/tippiness
General maintenance (eg. avoid needing to take a lot of the robot apart to do a replacement)

Fasteners
Hole sizes
Clearances
Maintenance (hand access, tool access, modularity, etc.)
- Longevity?
- Supports/cross members and weak spots (thickness/snapping, orientation of cheese holes, etc.)
Mechanical
Look at switching to REV MAXplanetary
Give swerve motors back to Leia for defense in drive practice
Manufacturing and Assembly
- Part drawings for parts that are manually machined
- Assembly drawings, yay!
- Map out or cad spacers
  - Maybe print custom length spacers? Would reduce modularity but would make assembly more foolproof
- Spreadsheet tracking for parts needing to be manufacturing
- Have a BOM as we go
- New tools (allen keys, ratcheting wrenches)
  - Organized!!!!!!!!! Placed strategically
- Make full spare systems (e.g. intake)
- Teach more students how to CNC
- Do CAM online and remotely
Manufacture in assembly order
Design leads determine assembly order in a master spreadsheet
Purchasing
- Have more people involved
- Subteam leads responsible for their own tabs in spreadsheet
- Have list of people who are willing to put things on credit cards
- Diligent about part numbers and quantities
- Order before the season starts
  - Metal, lexan
  - Rivets
  - Washers
  - Bolts (look at grades, can ask Andy)
  - REV MAXplanetary
  - More yellow organizers
  - 3D printer?
Electrical
- Label everything
- Have a student who knows electrical systems be involved in design
Categorize
- Must never fail (chassis, superstructure)
- Shouldn’t fail, but can be replaced easily if it does

Robot cart tools
Off limits when building robot, use when maintaining
Mark differently to pit tools
Clecos
- Open to using them, could be useful
Swapping Andersons for WAGOs
- Worth a try
- Could be useful for quick fixes
Tube plugs
- Order as needed
Bonded wire
- Buy whatever is cheaper
Buy new brushless motors that come out (Probably WCP)
- Not too concerned about motor issues as we can revert to old motors
- Will need to budget out a good amount for
Use CacheCAD
- Interfaces with gdrive
- Looks good!

Ferrules for small wires
- Not necessary as per expressed by Electrical team
Chop saw
- Not necessary
Colson drive wheels
- Stick with tread
- More regular maintenance, hole punch screw holes, get jig
Mini mill
- Not worth the money currently
Tooling in organizers
- Not necessary
- Workflow: take out organizer, see red, get red wrench and red allen key