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DESIGN DOCUMENTATION


Welcome to Bear Metal's Design Docs! From here, you can learn various different aspects of our design process as well as other related content!

For any suggestions/feedback, feel free to DM @Matthaeusssss via Discord 🤓

  • COTS Library


    Learn about what stocks, and Commercial-Off-The-Shelf products we use in our designs

  • CAD Fundamentals


    Every designers foundation to their mansion of knowledge, CAD is the favorite pass-time of every designer... right?...

  • Iteration Process


    Continuing to iterate through the season is our key to success... here's how we do it effectively ^

  • Inter-Subteam Knowledge


    Isolated designers are what lead us to making poorly integrated robots, let's not do that!

  • Mechanism Challenges


    Currated challenges to help develop a breadth of design knowledge in making beautiful designs (yippee!) ^

  • Organization/Documents


    With the sheer size of our team, we need to maximize our ability to communicate with eachother, here's how ^

  • Physics-In-Design


    For all the nerds out there and those who are groaning right now... Yes, math is involved in designing robots.

  • Strategic Design


    "How do we determine what to build during the build-season?"

    • here's our thought process!

  • Sustainability


    Very wise words from the yee olden design leads... and other words of advise to creating a sustainable design program!

  • External Resources


    There are plenty of tools and resources out there for designers, here are some of them ^

📝 Note

This functions as a culmination of both the returning/new membership training materials as well as effective pass-down of knowledge of various aspects regarding the design of our robots.