2. The Process of Design
A Picture Essay

3. Mix and Match the Steps, but Understand the Problem
The Great 8
Mix and Match the Steps, but Understand the Problem
Select the Best Ideas
Visualize the Ideas
Understand the Problem
Develop Ideas
Evaluate
Create Drawings
Integrate
Here is a workable design process.
If you don’t have a design process of your own yet.
One you have used successfully and can talk about or write about…then use this one.
Ideas are statements that describe WHAT your robot will do. Ideas are simple statements that reflect a deep understanding of the design problem or the design opportunity.
Designs describe HOW your machine will work. Designs are pictures and words. As the project develops, the design and hence the drawings become clearer and more detailed.
Always develop multiple Idea combinations before deciding on one particular set of ideas.
Build and Test

4. Download the BBIQ Technical Regulations &Tournament Procedures
Study The Regulations
Take the Online Exam
And Pass It…..
Before you ever attempt to design a BBIQ BattleBot…..STUDY THE RULES!…It’s sensless not to…You have to know the limits, establish the universe of what is possible and permitted…and reading the tech regs is an eye opener for sure and a really good learning experience. Reading the Tech Regs is time well spent.
Before You do Anything Else

5. Think about the game….a lot.
Know the GAME
Repeat the problem…the problem is the game!
Your robot is the solution to the game!
Most people build bad robots because they have not thought hard enough about the game…simple robots win very complicated games. Draw the battlebox…get sense of scale, of where the hazards are…and where they are not…Develop an exam about the game…pick the drivers from those participants who score highest on the exam!
3D Studio Max 4
Think about the game….a lot.

6. Study the Competition
Visit Their Websites
Join a Forum
It Makes Sense

7. There are more….find them
List Ideas
4 Wheel Drive
Whole Robot Lifts
ICE
Pusher-bot
Spinner
Unbreakable
Lifter
Fast
Hammers
Low Profile
Passive Weapon
Flipper
Flails
Tetrahedron
Round
There are more….find them

8. Form Them Into a Statement
Pick the “Best” Ideas
Build a BattleBot That Can Lift and Flip Other Robots and Push Them Into the Hazards
Form Them Into a Statement

9. Visualize the Ideas Draw Sketches of Robots
Develop Electro-Mechanical Strategies
Pictures Answer the HOW Question
Play Them Against One Another

10. Make Cardboard Mock Ups
It’s A Whole Lot of Fun

11. Look Around Your World
For Good Ideas

12. Refine the Idea Through Meetings, Debates and Dreaming

13. Make Your Thoughts Real
This model was made from the BBIQ Prototyping Kit
Make Working Models

14. Get It ?
Build It

15. Locate Components and Build Subassemblies
Put All the Parts Together
Feel The Size! Feel the Weight!

16. Min 160 lb. Ft. of torque req’d
Begin Detailing Parts
Min 160 lb. Ft. of torque req’d
24” Radius
Min 80 lbs lift req’d

17. Begin Making the Robot

18. Create Working Drawings Of the Components you Want to Use

19. Don’t Stop the Cycle
Vicious
Thinking
Building
Testing

20. And Drawing

21. Don’t’ Forget to Practice Driving A Lot
Until Your Done
Don’t’ Forget to Practice Driving A Lot

22. There’s Enough Work For Everyone
Generalist
Design
Build
CAD
Pneumatics
Weld
Programmer
Animation
Generalist
Machinist
There’s Enough Work For Everyone

23. Extends Your Time Budget
The Design Process
Extends Your Time Budget

24. There is only One Champion, but Everybody Learns to Design
Work Hard, Play Hard
There is only One Champion, but Everybody Learns to Design

25. THE END