We were almost done but we decided yesterday to change gear boxes and add two more motors to get more speed. As we like to say. You are not done until you run out of time...It can always be better.

Ahh... team 990 needs a miracle (anyone at last year's LA regionals will recognize that).
Anyway, we're pretty close to done. Our replacement drill motor came in (the other one blew up after the fan went out), and we hooked that up today. Monday, we get to finish the grabber arms--the whole kit and kabootle should be together by wednesday, which means almost a week for practice!

We have our frame finished. Most of our lexan (mounting base) has been fixed to the frame. Most of the individual components are finished (with the remaining work putting it on the robot and making it fit/work). So, that puts us about one week ahead of where we were last year at this point. Just thought I'd show the slower teams that they aren't alone.

yeah... sad, sad us.... we have a base with nothing attached to it yet... meaning it's just a welded frame..... and we have a couple of pieces that may be used for our 'accessory feature'..... plus our new and rugged tires are complete.... and no meetings until Monday.... bleh, I'm scared...


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Weld? What is this "weld" of which you speak? All we know are holes and bolts.

Oops, nearly forgot channel iron and threaded rod.


THese four objects compose 95% of our robot (measured by weight, volume, and time spent making the $#@$#@ things fit)

Fortunately, the arms mostly work now, all we need to do is fudge some more, and hope we don't break the threaded rod.


And see if the drive train actually works, and PRAY that we don't need more torque.

And figure out how to mount the electronics upside down over the pneumatic controls.

And see if we can create a way to let the battery in and out.

And see if the programmers have actually been doing anything all this time, and if we can convince them to make all the multitude of programs necessary.

And tell the programmers of all the stuff we left for them to do.

And see if there is any way that we can get the robot within the footprint at the beginning.


I wonder if our orientation motors will work . . .

But that's nothing compared to what we've already come through--so we're cool. I bet we'll be running (at least driving) by wednesday.

I'd suggest you be very careful doing this. We did that to our robot last year and at Nationals we had 7 matches and twice PWMs fell out of important things preventing us from playing. Make sure all your PWMs are soldered, glued and welded into their sockets.