Re: Week 2: Where's your Robot?
 

Well, maybe this will make you feel a bit better: our team hasn´t even RECEIVED our kit yet. <huge sigh> ...it´s out there somewhere, who knows where, but the only thing that matters is that it´s not in our hands... :mad:
Based on this...make your own conclusion as to what stage our robot is at :D !!!

Fortunately there´s other things that can be worked on...worst part is, we´re already a week short!! i hope it won´t take much longer, but all we can do is wait. patiently. :(

good luck to all teams!!!

Re: Week 2: Where's your Robot?
 

We are all set bulit field and all we are currently testing drivers and building a play book

Re: Week 2: Where's your Robot?
 

Kitbot has been modified and built to our specs. Parts are being ordered for the tetra retrival device and the program is being written and tested. the robot will be driveable tonight probly. :)

Re: Week 2: Where's your Robot?
 

hmmmmm robots oh yea we are stuck on weather to build a 25ft arm or make it into a helicopter

Re: Week 2: Where's your Robot?
 

Our robot is far from being closed to functioning. The chassis is in pieces, we did put together the kit transmissions. The subsystem design is currently being finisihed. Hopefully by Thursday I will have a little bot scooting around the floor.

Re: Week 2: Where's your Robot?
 

Our robot is moving along nice and spiffy. All we need to do is throw all our ideas together and BAM!, we have a robot. :cool:

Re: Week 2: Where's your Robot?
 

Our chassis design is done, and has been sitting at the machine shop for the past week..(i dont think well ever get it back).. the arm..now thats a completely different story.. we attempt to get one design somewhat finalized and someone runs in with a 'reality check' or a out-of-the-box idea, that we throw out after 5hrs of discussion...
anyone on 617- NO MORE ARM DESIGNS!!!- or we wouldnt finish it before next years kickoff much less end of Feb!
j

Re: Week 2: Where's your Robot?
 

We are further along then we were in week one.. :p ...starting to build basic parts...and we will work from there :] See you in ATL!

Re: Week 2: Where's your Robot?
 

Our robot is drawn on paper and partially CAD'd out.

They are deciding the exact mechanisms as we speak.

Last year at this time, we had almost decided we wanted to manipulate balls.

--Petey

Re: Week 2: Where's your Robot?
 

Have you heard of the team that never received there robot at a competition, and they ended up building a robot in 1 day?? I would say when comparing 5 weeks to 1 day, 5 weeks is a lot better (just trying to make you feel better). However i would be kind of mad to if we didn't have our kit by now.

Re: Week 2: Where's your Robot?
 

well we are in the middle of prototyping about 3 arms and the chassis drawing are complete and we're working on the controls too-- but otherwise we seem to be going well

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Several basic designs are down and hopefully we will have a final design by this weekend and we can get building soon.

Re: Week 2: Where's your Robot?
 

We drank a bunch of Mountain Dew on the 9th of January, and just started workin'.

Finished the robot last night about 11 PM.

Picked up by FEDEX at 3 PM today.

On its way to that 'drayage' company now, holding it for the Central Florida Regional in MArch.

Not sure what we will do until the 22nd of February. This has never happened before. :)

PS - please add another voting button for "SHIPPED!".

Re: Week 2: Where's your Robot?
 

due to my teams lack of dedication and time in the shop, much of the kitbot is still in the crates. We will be lucky if we have a bot at all by ship date

Re: Week 2: Where's your Robot?
 

Well for once in 14 years of FIRST our team has actually made a paradigm shift and started building in the first week with a goal of having a completed system done by this Saturday. My goal since I started 6 years ago was no allnighters. I 've spent the first year 3 allnighters straight with my very own hammock at our build site before the ship date. After that my goal was clear.

So hopefully we'll even have driver practice on the robot and maybe have time to build a whole practice bot for spares.

We can only dream I guess but at least we're making the attempt. I head the drives team this year and my subteam has completed the whole thing and actuially driving it last Saturday since everyone wanted to go home and watch football.


Ellery :yikes: