When did you finish your robot? (if at all :)
 

I voted for the day of shipping. :p

-Leav

Re: When did you finish your robot? (if at all :)
 

Theres no option for "we didnt finish" so I just checked "we were suppposed to have built a robot?". We sort of finished, but the robot still needs several more hours of work, and I will have to manufacture and attach a mount for the camera in the pits too... Should be fun.

Re: When did you finish your robot? (if at all :)
 

We "finished" the on Sunday the day before ship but were still bolting on parts Monday hours before Fedex arrived.

Re: When did you finish your robot? (if at all :)
 

The robot was playing happily on our practice field in the gym on February 12. We then spent the next week tweaking (a lot), reducing weight, making spare parts, testing autonomous, and finishing odds and ends. Going with a full CAD model before construction really speeds things along.

Re: When did you finish your robot? (if at all :)
 

I'm think we "finished" our robot an hour or so before DoD started. Of course our robot is never really finished.

Re: When did you finish your robot? (if at all :)
 

hmmm in relation to ship date? ....Negative 5 days

Re: When did you finish your robot? (if at all :)
 

it's never finished...always tweaking to be done....

Re: When did you finish your robot? (if at all :)
 

she is right... there is always something to work on.. on these FIRST robots. But, We finished on Sunday. The drivers drove around sunday and monday, so they had some practice.

Me: Jim, mechanical team is bored. BREAK THE ROBOT, so we can do something.

Jim: I AM TRYING, I AM TRYING!!!!

Re: When did you finish your robot? (if at all :)
 

We "finished" a week before ship, did some tweaking, practiced a bit with it, then unintentionally broke it (twice!) and were working on it until Saturday before ship.

Re: When did you finish your robot? (if at all :)
 

We didn't finish by the deadline, unfortunately. We've been working full days this week to get it done so we can hopefully slip it in the day of the regional. Hopefully no one will notice.

Kidding!

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There was an on-going joke on my team that we should fill our crate with parts from the KOP and an assortment of tools so that when we arrive Thursday we would go around and ask teams what the challenge is, what FIRST is, and generaly act surprised that the robot needed to built before hand. That would have been fun if our mentors had not insisted on not wasting $5000+ just to be silly.

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According to the mechanical teams, our robot was "done" 2 weeks ago. The programmers didn't actually get to do anything untill Friday, which was about 9 days after we were supposed to get it. Things kept breaking so we didn't actually get to drive it untill monday around 11 pm.

Re: When did you finish your robot? (if at all :)
 

We pretty much finished at 2:22 PM on Ship Day, when the FedEx truck arrived. There are a few more holes to be drilled and a bit more work to be done when we get to comp, but we are more or less done.

Re: When did you finish your robot? (if at all :)
 

we "finished" sunday did excessive tweaking monday and shipped tuesday

Re: When did you finish your robot? (if at all :)
 

We were scrambling to finish right up to the deadline.

We happened to have the week of the ship date off for Winter break so we spent 12+ hours at school on Monday, and got there the next morning to keep working. FedEx came around 1 and we had to turn him away. 5 minutes later our mentor got a call from the FedEx offices asking why weren't ready :rolleyes:

The FedEx guy came back nearly 3 hours later, and we still had to make him wait another 20 minutes. Luckly we were his last pickup of the day.