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We've been driving for about 3 or 4 days now. We're starting to hit the chassis up against things and start breaking things early so we can fix them. We just finished up one of our primary mechanisms, and we'll be shooting to get the others assembled in the next few days.

We've come to discover that the moral booster is HUGE when you have a box running around, so we try to get that done by end of week three each year... we got it done about middle of week three. Close enough for me.

Good luck everybody!

Matt

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We've been driving for about a week and a half now .... we determined that our original wheels weren't gonna work .... now we're waiting on new wheels.

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With all the drive prototypes we built in the off-season, we were technically driving the first week. Now we are just putting it on the final chassis with the other stuff.

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if i could be of assistance
feel free: nikolay.roshtainsky@sympatico.ca

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our robot is finaly moving today, nothing fancy, but i'm happy for what it is after working like mad on it for 3 weeks.
subsystems are in progress

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Well we haven't driven yet but I'm happy to report our robot made its maiden flight today.

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FLIGHT say's you?!?!!

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Team 1057's robot moved for the first time today...although we are using the 2003 edurobot controller to do it :rolleyes: . It was very high performance, however.

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Battle Cruiser Operational.
MVRT, over and out.

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I know 870 could of easily moved today, all we had to do was slap a battery in, put the chains back on, and it would of been driving everywhere. But of course, working from 9am-5pm, and the adminstrator making about a 45 minute drive to go see his little girl, we simply didn't feel like it! hehe

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I posted our progress here:
http://chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?p=218534

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Team 578 Fairport/Gleason

Robot is online and functioning within normal parameters

Drivetrain is smooth as butter

Auton closed loop internal navigation system takes the robot where we tell it to go

but the most important thing of all, our robot is so CUTE!

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We've been moving for weeks now, but we still don't have any of our ridiculous number of "articulating masts" running yet. Most of the problems with the drivetrain have been worked out and programming is coming along nicley. So until we figure out what unforseen disaster will strike us this year, all is well! :rolleyes:

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358's bot is finally up and running. We're working a bit faster this time, I think last year we had less than a week to go... :rolleyes:

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The bulk of 857 hasn't even seen the drivetrain yet... hopefully they'll show us some time this week, however our treads won't be in till mid-last-build-week. i'm getting kinda worried...