Re: Anyone Done Yet?
 

Well, from what I hear, you're not finished until the robot is put back in the crate and shipped home. I've seen a few stories here of last minute tweaks done during competition...

As for being finished, our team is not entirely done. We have the mechanical part of the robot pretty much complete, and all we have to do is mount our electronics and wire everything up to see how it works. Of course after that there are those unexpected problems that you never anticipate, so we'll probably be spending a bit of time coming up with solutions for potential issues.

Then after that, the remainder time should be spent practicing and creating extra parts if needed (you never know when that important peice might break).

There really isn't an end here is there? It just keeps going and going and going...

Re: Anyone Done Yet?
 

237 has been finished since the end of week 3...

now could someone please explain this robotics thing you guys seem to be so crazy about to me?

Re: Anyone Done Yet?
 

My team isn't done yet. Is that really bad? :O

Re: Anyone Done Yet?
 

Not bad, by any means!
I think most teams aren't finished!
No worries, you still have a little bit of time left :D

1089 has a driveable base.
I'm under the impression we should be finished some time this weekend.

Re: Anyone Done Yet?
 

We aren't done. My guess is the robot won't be done until mid-next week, like usual. Poor planning usually is the result for this, but this year it's been partially do to leadership problems (we have 5 club officers; only 2 of the 5 that started this year still remain officers). Some too much work, some not really motivated, etc., etc.

We do have our whole design done though, and have all components at least started. The problem is putting them all together and giving us enough time to get the code working with the robot.

1978 hasn't built anything yet (Barry Goldwater High School from nearby here in Arizona). Their kit arrived 3 weeks late (last week Monday) due to registration problems, and was missing a few parts, plus they did not have enough funds to buy basically any additional parts for the robot. We've given them some materials to help, and it looks like they have a design reasonable to finish in the time they have. We'll help them as needed; I hope they get something built in time for competition.

Re: Anyone Done Yet?
 

We've had the worst luck with ordering parts...our frame peices were 6 days late, and 3 orders we made were never confirmed...we're behind from our set schedule, but on track with previous years. My only concern is that our design in more complex than we've ever done before...we might be working long hours on competition Thursday...

Re: how far have you gotten on your robot?
 

Were done. 4 weeks. kick $@#$@#$@# robot.

Re: Anyone Done Yet?
 

We got off to a rough start, changed our design quite a few times, communication issues. Finally looks like a Robot........OK, maybe not ;)

Re: Anyone Done Yet?
 

Team 1208 is definitely behind its projected schedule. As usual.
EOC

Re: Anyone Done Yet?
 

Our team is almost done with the chassis (I hope) but we are far from all the little things coming together. The shooter is in pieces as we just disassembled what we had done to paint the robot.

Our software guys mounted the camera on our robot from last year and have autonomous code running so that they can learn how it works (will later be adapted to our new bot - 2 wheel drive old bot, 4 wheel new).

Re: how far have you gotten on your robot?
 

Team 1011 is less than 2 days from shipping and we took the bot apart to paint. How is that for audacity...LOL! We have shooter, collector and dumper and only came in 8 pounds heavy at our first weigh-in. No kit bot for us. We used steel! We are rebuilding today, driving tomorrow and fine tuning programming issues and off to dryage Tuesday! Good luck all, and see you at Phoenix or Las Vegas!

Leslie Lintner
Mentor Team 1011

Re: how far have you gotten on your robot?
 

We're done!!!! :)

Re: how far have you gotten on your robot?
 

a robot?.........

Re: how far have you gotten on your robot?
 

Well...
We were going to be done by saturday, wired by sunday night, and driving monday and tuesday...

Then we checked our weight- at 9:00pm Saturday night we were projecting a weight that was 20+lbs over the limit. So, saturday night we started hemorraghing weight, and today we attempted to re-design...but everyone was exhausted and non-functional from the night before (loooong night). Right now we are starting from the base up (no pun intended)- we are maintaining our drivetrain and base, and our collection method. Tomorrow we will build a corner goal delivery method(goal #1), a BASIC shooter(goal #2), and various other things...(goal 3). Wiring will probably be designed in fix-it window and done on location @ Drexel...

Wish us luck!

Re: how far have you gotten on your robot?
 

Our team is now chillin'. We finished all major aspects during the weekend. The robot drives and shoots accuratley. So yea we happy. only thing we still need to do is rewrite some acceletation curves for the turret.