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Hey Cheif Delphi,

How far is your team on your robot build, electrical, or programming?

So far my team has is completed the chassis, ball collector, feeder, and started the turret. We just have to assemble the rest of the parts. The electrical team has finished building the actual electrical board, just need to mount it and connect the motors to the controllers. Programmers are doing really well, and are trying to get the automatic aiming system working right now. I believe they are done the actual driving and ball collection system done, but not sure.


Good Luck Teams!!! :)

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256 is great! The best we've done ever for week 4! We're finishing the final touches on our bot, and perfecting our code! All we need to do now is plop all of the separate parts together (12 bolts total) and we'll have our robot! From then on it's driver practice, minor adjustments, and more driver practice! And of course naming the robot and making the robot video, which are always fun!

Also on the to-do list: Attend the Fembots' and Cheesy Poofs' practice days! :D

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Wow, the end of week 4 already, and all we have to show for it is a frame and a box of mecanum wheels. :(

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Dont fret. They're special^

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Keep your head up! Two weeks is a lot of time if a team works hard, and teams around you are more than happy to help!

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almost the exact thing i was gonna say :)

We got our robot parts last week. so we built almost everything in just over a week.

PS. Find a sponsor that will water-jet or lazer-cut a sheetmetal robot for you (and bend). and make your robot easy to assemble (using rivets not bolts. cause bolts are a lot harder to fasten/take of when u need a hand on both sides of a piece of sheet metal). We've never done a full sheet-metal robot before, this was our first year. Sheet-metal is definitely the way to go though :)

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Thanks for the advice! Sheetmetal will be our primary goal in this next offseason (or really long pre-season, since you never stop doing FIRST)

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I thought they both on the same day? the 18th if i'm not mistaken

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The Fembot's is the 18th, while I think the Poofs are doing the whole weekend. We usually go to the Poof's Lab on Sunday, while Saturday is open for us, though this year we're hoping to spend some time with 692 at their place. (They have ice cream! :D)

Kevin, if Cardinalbotics are going, then I would love to see how you're doing!

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We're most likely going to the poofs on saturday, maybe sunday... idk...I would kind of like to film the robot unveil there!

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We usually film ours at their lab. It makes it look so much nicer than our library! :p

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Where has the time gone? My team is almost done with our first robot--and we are starting machining the second one tomorrow.

This might be remembered as our Charles Dickens year. We certainly came into the season with Great Expectations, but have been experiencing a sort of dichotomy in our progress. It is the Best of Times: the first robot is almost done, a really strong team, and were not looking overweight, but somehow things seem to be at there Worst: we've barely started our robot, tremendous amounts of money have been spent, and we don't even know that our shooter design works. We seem to be missing both David (our mill mentor) and Copper (well, bronze bushings) when we seem to need them most.

Punning aside, I think we are in a really great place at week four.

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Originally Posted by akoscielski3 (Post 1120204) Hey Cheif Delphi, How far is your team on your robot build, electrical, or programming?

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Originally Posted by SuperNerd256 (Post 1120210) 256 is great! The best we've done ever for week 4! We're finishing the final touches on our bot, and perfecting our code! All we need to do now is plop all of the separate parts together (12 bolts total) and we'll have our robot! From then on it's driver practice, minor adjustments, and more driver practice! And of course naming the robot and making the robot video, which are always fun! Also on the to-do list: Attend the Fembots' and Cheesy Poofs' practice days!

Wow, I'm really impressed with how much you guys have done so far :o We've basically CAD'd the drive train, and have ordered/received a lot of parts, but we don't have much in the way of physical assemblies yet. We've been mostly doing analysis for the other subsystem--time consuming but (hopefully) a huge payoff in competition. It's amazing how minor variance in motor speed and ball compression affects the arc of a shot. Programming and electrical are well underway, as well.

Good luck to everyone for the last 2 weeks!

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Well, you are Beach City Robotics, so I think you'll have a successful year! Like I've said on many other posts before: 2 weeks (and 3 days) is a lot of time!

My team literally just took our entire robot apart today, redesigned parts of it, and put it all back together! In our one practice round we made about 6 points every 20 seconds or so (We only have 3 balls). And that was without any misses. That's all I'm going to say about our robot for now, but look forward to a great season from 256!

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Ah, good for you! I managed to convince my team to make the entire robot bolted this year, so we can take our robot apart down to individual frame members and reassemble it. I've gotten a lot of indignant questions about why we aren't welding, but its great to hear that being able to disassemble parts of your bot has come in handy.

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Our practice bot is done mechanically and Mae will work wonders tomorrow to make the thing move. All that's left for build team is to clone the practice bot to make the one that we will ship.

Hope that everyone is having a good time :)

100th post the day before my b-day... :D

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We're doing well, we were able to shoot the past two days and we did some barrier crossing today. We still have a lot of work to do with the controls and programming. We also need some tweaking to the mechanical systems.

Look at our build log for more information.

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Our prototype bot is built and driving, so all we have to do now is redesign all the problems out and build our final robots.

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Team 166 is doing better time wise then the other 2 years Ive been on the team. We have our shooter assembled, or ball collector/storage done and mounted, drive-train has been done for a week, electrical board is almost done.

We are starting 3 hours early today so we can have the robot physically done and handed over to software either today or tomorrow.

Oh... and YAY 166th post!

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That's how we do it.
We have slapped the shooter on top of the drives base both sides are negotiating where to put what so the robot will work at it's best.
Time is growing short but I think everything is rounding into form.

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This year we built two robots. But they were fully designed and are being built together. They are the exact same that way. and now we have a practice robot.

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2989...Feeling a bit out of sorts. I feel like we are behind...We are definately behind last years schedule...hopefully we can put in some hours this week and be ready to rock and roll next weekend...We had a few minor setbacks that need to be fixed and then we should be gooder to go. (I know gooder isn't a word)

Weight wise things are looking really good...

Things seem like they are taking longer than they should...

The crazy part is...nothing is put together at this point which has me really frustrated. Our frame is 1 leg short...Our drive train was all together, and got pulled apart in order to get married to the chassis, and somehow now the chains seam to have been miss placed...even had to spend a few hours cutting missing spacers!? Oh...and our dumper piston mount was welded on in the wrong place.

(did I mention we switched classrooms last week?)

Oh...and we can't seam to find any but one of our victors, one of our jaguars died, and the rest of them were loaned out and never returned last year.

It will be OK...It will all work out...Breath....

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Well at the end of week 4 Team 3997 (Screaming Chickens) just needs to finish up ramp mechanism and put on electronics and our robot is done. We are still testing camera tracking which is coming along very good.

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Team 1939 is a little behind, we almost have all of our code compilled. Mechanical needs to step it up though as the ball collector/shooter is halfway done. We do have a driveable drive train though, so that is good.

Goodluck to other teams as we enter week 5!

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3397 has a drivable robot, a shooter that needs to be built, an elevator and ball intake that needs to be attached, and a bridge lowerer that needs to be designed. We cannot go over the bump due to how we placed our CIMs, and are feeling pretty good. ;)

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Hey, at least you have a frame! We have yet to start ours :P but its alright, 2 weeks is plenty of time, right?!?!? Good luck to all teams :)

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True it it is plenty of time to build but no time to practice.

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Team 1245 has the bridge lever, ball shooter, ball picker-upper, board finished and working. The code for autonomous works as well as tank code. All we have to do now is put it all together and see how it works. :D

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Nothing wrong with screwing or bolting a machine together. The Linotype machine (incredibly complex) far predated practical welding.

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it is all actualy put together.:cool: