Re: Final hours
 

Last year we bagged at 11:45. I guess our team is named accurately...

Hopefully we will be finishing earlier this year, we have a lot less left to do, depends on how much time our programmers need, and how long we can justify staying for driver practice.

Re: Final hours
 

2471 is basically ready to go. We need to replace some cardboard placeholders (they don't really blend with the CNC parts all around them) and work on sticking on sponsor logos. My team really pulled together this weekend and got us into position to have some real fun at Portland in a few weeks.

Everyone should be proud of the robot that they have been working on these six short weeks. :)

Re: Final hours
 

Ha! Ending a meeting at just midnight will be shorter hours than we've been utilizing this build! :]
I won't spoil any details, but I can say that we are using every moment to notch up our abilities. I believe we have built a platform and strategy with a lot of potential.

Re: Final hours
 

We're essentially mechanically done now, but we'll be making small tweaks up until bagging tomorrow.

Our electrical boards are wired, but nothing is wired *to* them, so we'll be doing that tomorrow as well.

Which should give me a few hours to test the code and run some critical experiments to determine ratios, etc, as well as PID tuning.

We're cutting it closer than I would have liked, and we won't really get any driver practice, but it's our 3rd year and still a massive improvement over last year. I'm not complaining :cool:

Re: Final hours
 

We're done and have been practicing nearly full-time since Friday. Just doing our community presentation tomorrow and sealing it up.

Re: Final hours
 

We just have to open up the KoP, assemble the C-channel frame, put together the transmissions, set up the belt drive system, [omitted for brevity], mount our climbing device and eyehooks, make bumpers, and tweak Vision targeting.

Re: Final hours
 

We could bag as-is, but we're making much needed improvements to our loading system to prevent jamming, and trying to more securely mount our wheel treads, as they slip off. Other than that, tomorrow will be spent doing driver practice.

Re: Final hours
 

Getting all the sheet metal re-cut for our robot, and essentially building an entire robot tomorrow in 12 hours to bag.

Why?

Weighed at 132 lbs.

Sigh.

Re: Final hours
 

Our team decided tonight to scrap the climber idea because of weight issues. We used actual pipe wrenches to grab hold and torque our robot paralleled with the pyramid. So We're hoping to be done with shooter tweeks by 4:00 AM. And then we'll be training driving and practicing until about 9:00 AM. That's when our sponsors will be coming for an open house. And we'll continue driving until 11:59 PM.

Re: Final hours
 

We have the robot mechanically and electrically finished aside from sponsor stickers, programming has autonomous finished and has to add 1 more button to driver control for a last minute cylinder. We've already tested driving each of our systems and just need to get our drivers some stick time. We're one frustrating Jaguar issue away from a robot we could inspect first thing Thursday morning and practice with. Unfortunately we've been at that point since 4 PM yesterday. Hopefully it got fixed after I left last night...

Re: Final hours
 

The mechanical and electrical teams have been frantically building and wiring since they started putting together the robot a week ago. It was looking good when I left last night.

Re: Final hours
 

Team 4269 is looking pretty good. I put 30 hours in during the Presidents' day weekend. We should be done pretty soon.

Re: Final hours
 

Last night we learned that in the epic battle with the concrete shop floor that VexPro hex shaft powering a mechanism will lose in spectacular fashion. Climbing the pyramid isn't the issue, having an inverted axis so the robot tries to rotate through the floor is.

Should be doing a final climb test with the competition bot and then pull some components for withholding before we bag it.

Re: Final hours
 

I believe for the first year in about 10 years we actually aren't building or modifying, or swiss-cheesing, or any sort of frantic, pull-your-hair-out, last minute freak out, irrational sawing of component off the robot, maneuvers this year. We can actually do a little bit of driver practice with the fully complete robot. Somebody pinch me.....

Re: Final hours
 

Well, hopefully we'll finish our shooter in time to wire and program it...


And our drive train still needs some work...


And our electrical board is a mess...




But other than that, we're done!