PDR of our bot for VEX WORLDS

A PDR is a Preliminary Design Review (PDR). The Preliminary Design Review (PDR) is a technical assessment that establishes the Allocated Baseline of a system to ensure a system is operationally effective.

Usually, during a PDR, we ask the question why, not how. Questions like why we could use a catapult instead of a flywheel to shoot balls during a VEX robotics competition are asked instead of how the fly wheel works. We don’t want to waste time during a PDR, by asking how. After meeting with my team CSUN Matabots, we decided to calculate the points we could score while hitting flags, turning caps, and parking on the platform, then designed our bots based on the type of strategy we agreed upon. After agreeing on a strategy we started to CAD a bot based on this strategy. Before any manufacturing is done, we had to design the entire robot on #solidworks and present this design to the rest of the team, to then start the production. This saves us time, money, and most importantly, helps us design something to the fullest capability rather then building by hand.