Over the course of our first season, we found a process that worked for us, and we do our best to stick to it. We first brainstorm as a group, just throwing out ideas. Then we CAD the most viable ideas to see if they’d work ok. Next, we prototype our design with cheap metal and start building the component, which we code at the same time. Testing and troubleshooting happen at the same time, and if we see something that needs fixing, we start the cycle again, but this time more focused on that specific problem!