1. Black Box Robot Design Danny Blau Rocket Scientist, AFM

2. Thinking Outside the Box

3. Design Something

4. Design a Robot

5. Design a FIRST Robot

6. Design an FTC Robot

7. Design a 2012 FTC Robot

8. Something to Onething

9. A Box is Nice!

10. Making the Box Requirements/Needs Things the robot MUST do! Make a List Be super specific This defines the robot’s function and says nothing about the “HOW”

11. Making the Box Requirements List 1.Must be able to build Wood vs Metal Access to Water Jet vs Basement 2.Pass Inspection Check the rules each year! 3.Move What constitutes a legal FTC robot?

12. Objectives/WANTS Things the robot WANTS to do! Ranked after Requirements/Needs Things that would be nice to have Different for every team Making the Box

13. The LIST 1.Your team must be able to build it 2.Pass Inspection 3.Move 4.Thing 5.Thing 6.Thing 7.Thing Requirements Objectives

14. Trade-ables Things that pull in opposite directions Speed Vs Torque (Pushing Power) Weight Vs Complexity High reach Vs low center of gravity

15. Defining Your Own Box

16. Key Elements of Design K.I.S.S When in Doubt, Build it Stout! Maximize Driver Margin of Error

17. Questions? Danny Blau dannymblau@gmail.com