how many teams are driving now?
 

i realize that we have two weeks left and this is the traditional time that people's pile of bolts starts to move around the ground....so how about a status check for teams


73 and 1405 both drove today

73 has 3 subsystems still being worked on


where is your team at?

Re: how many teams are driving now?
 

Our chassis has moved under its own power unfortunately we did destroy both drill motors (not from driving though). Our other systems are still being fabricated and aren't mounted to the chassis yet. If no unforseen problems arise we should have the motors replaced and some of the other systems attached by the end of this week.

Re: how many teams are driving now?
 

We've driven around on our test course. Most of our subsystems are still being constructed, however.

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Not driving yet. But we're happy with what we got going.

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Though, in previous years (at least '02 and '03, the first two years of my team involvement), our team has not been driving until the last week before ship date, we are nearing that point this weekend. We should be driving by tomorrow or Monday...all that needs to be done to drive is wiring. :D Our electrical better get to crackin'! ;)

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We have nothing done. Someone help!

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We've drivin a few times, its been a little shaky at first because we are obviously still making changes to our bot, but both driving and the bot have been coming along nicely.

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just got word from 343 they are mobile

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team 293 is making EXCELLENT progress. We've got a rolling chasis with our completed drivetrain mounted on it. Our electronics are done. All of our subsystems are done except for 1. Our programmers have done some REDICULOUS things and everything works great. I'm warning u guys, 293 is gonna be a team to watch this year.

P.S What could we be doing with 3 telescoping arms and a boat hook? Hmmm, i wonder.

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296 isn't driving yet, but we just got most of our parts back from Nortel's machine shop today after sending them out two weeks ago, so we should be driving in the next couple of days.

It feels weird, as if we haven't really done anything, since we have absolutely nothing built yet, but we're actually ahead since we have most everything CADded. All we have to do now is put together the pieces.

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We at team 365 are driving, and all of the individual functionalities have been tested. Working on all of the integration now, and the negotiations between sub-teams has begun for mounting space for motor, pneumatics and such.

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Team 219 was driving, we had a wood frame driving last week, but we took it apart to work on the final design, basically, yes we are driving around

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We need to diagram and mount electronics. Other than that, we're more or less ready to go, ladies and gents. ;) Stay tuned for teasers in the coming weeks.

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SwampThing is fully capable of driving But There is no program and the controls arent mapped at all So .Not drivng moves in a fairly unpredictable manner tho

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wow... i am soooo relieved to find out we are not the only ones not driving yet. hopefully tomorrow (sunday) we will be driving. we have 1 of 3 subsystems done (as far as i know). we just recieved our manufactured gearbox, and plan to mount that tomorrow, so hopefully be driving tomorrow. im getting nervous. if we dont drive by mid week, im going to make an executive decision to use the bosch motors and our old motor mounts from last year. good luck