The Process of Design

A Picture Essay

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

Download the BBIQ Technical Regulations &Tournament

Procedures

Study The Regulations

Take the Online Exam

And Pass It…..

Before You do Anything Else

Know the GAME

Think about the game….a lot.

3D Studio Max 4

Study the Competition

It Makes Sense

Visit Their Websites

Join a Forum

List Ideas4 Wheel Drive

SpinnerLifter

Flipper

Whole Robot Lifts

FastLow Profile

RoundTetrahedron

Pusher-bot

HammersPassive Weapon

Flails

ICE

Unbreakable

There are more….find them

Pick the “Best” Ideas

Form Them Into a Statement

Build a BattleBot That Can Lift and Flip Other Robots

and Push Them Into the Hazards

Visualize the IdeasDraw Sketches of Robots

Play Them Against One Another

Develop Electro-Mechanical

Strategies

Pictures Answer the HOW Question

Make Cardboard Mock Ups

It’s A Whole Lot of Fun

Look Around Your World

For Good Ideas

Refine the Idea

Through Meetings,

Debates and Dreaming

Make Your Thoughts Real

Make Working Models

This model was made from the BBIQ Prototyping Kit

Get It ?

Build It

Locate Components and Build Subassemblies

Put All the Parts TogetherFeel The Size! Feel the Weight!

Begin Detailing Parts

24” Radius

Min 80 lbs lift req’d

Min 160 lb. Ft. of torque req’d

Begin Making the Robot

Create Working Drawings

Of the Components you

Want to Use

Don’t Stop the Cycle

Thinking

Building

Testing

Vicious

And Drawing

Until Your Done

Don’t’ Forget to Practice Driving

A Lot

There’s Enough Work For Everyone

Programmer

Machinist

CAD PneumaticsDesign

Build Weld

Animation

Generalist

Generalist

The Design Process

Extends Your Time Budget

Work Hard, Play HardThere is only One

Champion, but

Everybody Learns to

Design

THE END