The Journey of Creation is About
Logic
Process
Productive Originality Understand why ideas do or do not make sense
Thinking, visualizing, building and testing. Trading on the currency of being focused and working hard.
Create a successful BattleBot by making a commitment and making it happen
DesirePassion gets you through the hard parts of journey
The Great 8
Select the Best Ideas
Visualize the Ideas
Understand the Problem
Develop Ideas
Evaluate
Build and Test
Create Drawings
Integrate
Mix and Match the Steps, but Understand the Problem
The 5 Budgets Rule the Design Process
Time Budgets
Weight Budgets
There is never enough so use it wisely.
You can’t do everything. Make smart choices about what your robot will do and how it will do it.
Money BudgetsNuff said.
Knowledge BudgetsAt the start of the project cycle, trade some Time for Knowledge. Work within your knowledge budget.What you don’t know can and will hurt you!
Power BudgetsBig motors, high speed and torturous torque curves need big batteries. Big batteries impinge on weight budgets. You have to run hard for 3-5 minutes.
The 5 Budgets Rule the Design Process
Ask Essential Questions About the Game.
How can the game be won?
How can the game be lost?
These are good starter questions.There are thousands more
How long is a game?
How fast do I have to move to score?
Make Statements About the BattleBot
Write 100 things about the robot, write them, write them on a plane, write them, write them
on a train, write them, write them until you go insane!
Copy them in your design notebook
Create Specifications
Maneuverable
Fast
4 Wheel Drive
Use Pneumatics to Lift Opponents
Differential Steering
What does your machine have to do to play?
Clearly describe what your robot will do and be
Know WHAT your Robot will do
Know HOW your Robot will do it.
Before You Build
Recognize design trade-offsTime/Money/Knowledge/Power/Weight
Anticipate problemsStudy Mechanisms and Materials
Build and Test Assemblies
Ask Essential Questions About the Stuff You Need
to Build a BattleBot.
How do I make wheels and axles move?
How much power can the motors produce?
Think of a few hundred more.
Visualize the Prize
Use CAD Skills to Parallel the Prototyping Process
Make Sketches of the Ideas
Combine and Analyze the Ideas
Build Models of the Idea
Build Test and Evaluate
Build a Drive Train and Test ItBuild things that work, and work and work
Make a Controllable PlatformPut 100 lbs on it
Test and Evaluate the Sub-AssembliesMake modifications and changes
Compare Ideas Rationally
4 Wheel Drive 2 Wheel Drive
Make a Decision Matrix
Time
Money
Knowledge
Power
Weight
2
2
2
1
2
1
1
1
2
1
Two wheels have advantages with respect to the 5 Budgets
Do the Math
W = WHAT you want the machine to do
H = HOW you expect the machine to do it
CD-10 = What the machine CAN DO given the available time and resources
(W/H) x CD-10 = Your Machine
Combine Components
Integrate Assemblies
Test Concepts
Model Ideas
Use the BBIQ Table Top Prototyping Kit To: