An important aspect of custom-making robots is the necessity to design what it is you want to make before attempting to fabricate it. While TETRIX-built robots are easy to take apart and can be used elsewhere, improperly designed custom parts are effectively useless and a waste of materials and time. Thus, you should take the time to design your part and verify that it is correctly designed before attempting to fabricate it.

The above video made by our team goes over the importance of designing robots first and the steps to the engineering cycle.