Re: Build Progress?
 

Manipulators and drivebase are mostly CADed. Would like to integrate on Saturday. Hopefully cutting metal on Saturday too.

Re: Build Progress?
 

1076 is on schedule. Prototype/Practice robot should be mechanically complete Saturday 1/17, and the competition robot should be mechanically finished before the end of the month. Code will be done whenever. Competition robot drive train is already started.

That leaves all of February to prep for our week 1 district event. Oh boy!!!

Re: Build Progress?
 

Field elements, strategy and conceptual design done. Initial prototyping done. More refined prototypes being constructed. Lots of parts orders coming in.

Competition drivetrain and elevator CAD ~75% complete. We expect to have the practice robot's drivetrain by the end of the week.

Re: Build Progress?
 

We, as of last night, have a really good idea of what we want to CAD/build. We just need to decide what can manipulator we are going to use. There are two competing prototypes right now.

Re: Build Progress?
 

We are still waiting on our main parts. We have solid prototypes built, and at least our material delay is giving CAD a little more time than normal.

Re: Build Progress?
 

We are not as far along as we would like. But mostly because of weather and hosting an FLL District Tournament on Jan. 10. We have two prototype drive trains together, and are testing them to see which we want to use. A number of prototype grabbers for totes and/or containers. A prototype elevator frame and a prototype garage door style lifter to power it. We hope to get one of the grabbers mounted to the elevator frame, powered and on a robot on Saturday. I am not going to hold my breath. I do think that by the end of Saturday we will have settled on a basic overall design.

We tend to do our CAD work in pieces. We will CAD the final drive base once we have settled on the exact design and the space required for the devices that will mount to it. Then the various device teams will do their own CAD work and we will integrate it. We have found that we are more successful when each component team knows the space allocated to it, and iterates its designs off of that. With a process to petition for more/different space based off of our design hierarchy. This allows them to have a "virtual box" on the prototype chassis that they can play with as they desire. This does put more pressure on the wiring team than I would like, but has tended to produce better robots for us since we started doing it in 2011.

As we have a large team we are also working on several other prototypes for lifting/grabbing, a Vex model holonomic slide drive and a few community outreach engineering projects.