Decision Matrix

Design Name	Ease of Building	Ease of Code	Aesthetic Appeal	Time to Finish	Rough Cost	Total
Castle	7 Few parts to put together	6 few sensors	8 Castles are cool	5 May take a long time but manageable	7 ($9000)	33 WINNER!
Airplanes	5 a variety of parts	5 quite complex	8 cool aesthetic and easy to theme	5 May take a long time but manageable	9 ($7000)	32
Operation	2 many parts involved	3 multiple sources of failure	6 could be somewhat gross unless cartoony	4 may take a long time and will cut it close	8 ($7000)	23
Curling	3 many parts involved	4 planned use of vectors creates a large challenge in RobotC	6 lower appeal	4 may take a long time and will cut it close	9 ($6500)	26
Hungry Hippos	3 many parts involved	6 pretty straightforward	5 harder to theme and look appealing	3 requires repetitive building	9 ($7000)	26

Reasoning

• Easy to build:

  • We need to make it so it is not too complicated for us to build

• Easy to code

  • We can’t code something that requires an insane amount of options, or that which is hard to present at this current level

• Aesthetically Appealing

  • A big part of our score is how the product looks, and we need to make our product look as nice as possible to receive positive criticism.

• Time to finish project

  • We also need to make sure that our project won’t take longer than expected to build and code our project, which both relates to how easy it is to code and build our project, plus all the small details like Criterion and poster boards

• Cost of project

  • We had to create a baseline cost so that we can estimate if the project will cost too much money, rather than knowing that our project is financially not possible due to it being too much money.