Re: What every mentor is thinking right now is...
 

There's 13 hours between stop build time and the start of field build. What more do you need?

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Finally pushed the robot in some stress tests last night.

1- Shorted a PD board after crossing a defense.

2- Ripped the "L" bracket from which our drive-train gear boxes were mounted to.

3- Destroyed the low bar

Safe to say that we might have found some weakness in the robot.

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"Why isnt there more robot reveals yet?" :)

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(1) I remember when I could pull an all-nighter and it didn't phase me .....
(2) I wonder if I'm still married ......
(3) I wonder if 20 years of this is enough .......
(4) Maybe we should have given the software folks more time ......

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...and people thought Aerial Assist was rough on robots.

It's one thing to make a robot robust to moderate impacts in the bumper zone. This is easily manageable with a bit of planning, and can be hotfixed if you didn't plan for it without too much trouble.

It is another entirely to design a drive train that can slam into large obstacles at high speeds and not get torn to shreds. A lot of the standard drive best practices just weren't designed for these constraints, which I think a lot of us (myself included) are going to learn the hard way. This is my ninth year of FRC, and I can't remember anything even close to this rough. It's going to be absolute mayhem.

On the one hand, I think this is going to be a fabulous opportunity for gracious professionalism and coopertition to shine at events as many of the robots break down and teams help each other with the fixes.

On the other, I think it might make for a lot of frustration and disappointment.

We'll see.

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Our robot is doing some damage to the steel rock wall?

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What's next?

Just kidding, I already know what's next and it definitely isn't sleep.

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No early parole for time served ;)

After 20 years I know what the terror part was in the Toroid Terror game.
Once you start FRC you can't stop!

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"I wonder if my spouse filed for divorce while I've been at robotics for the past six weeks"