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its looking like #340 is going have an all-nighter or two this weekend :ahh:

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Yea, the school i attended in High School, Oakland Schools Technical Campus NE, in Pontiac Michigan has all that stuff, and then some. We take it for granted

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The school I attend (Keene High School) has a vocational center for the county attached to it, it has a full CAD lab (20 machines capable of running Inventor 10) and a full machine shop. It is a great resource. As for our robot, day by day new pieces get attached, and I hope to have most everything on tommorow . We finished the Omni drive tonight, and let me say, it kicks major butt. :D If you are at BAE or Boston this year, you will see us in action.

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WE ARE REALLY FAR BEHIND!!! I voted for the 20-29% area and this is true. We have a running drive base and a prototype shooter. Thats it. We have designer the rest, but havn't even started to build it yet. I see us working on the robot until Tuesday at Midnight and then finishing the wireing part or some other parts when we get the Las Vegas. I need some sleep!!! :ahh:

Josh
Team Driver/Designer

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you actually have... till tuesday, whenever the FedEx driver gets to your pick up local.

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I know, I was just saying that to show how far behind we are!!! I also din't like the idea that me might not be able to work on it that much on tuesday.

Josh
Team Driver/Designer

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We might have it finished by this weekend. Having magic smoke pour out of the bot because our bump sensor short circuited isn't helping.

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hmm.... i think 1511 is in worst shape. i heard that their robot has never been assembled and is in pieces and that the team has been working every day as late as possible to get it finished with parents bringing meals to the team :confused: .........

Get your bot done!!! Good luck, see you GRR guys at FLR and maybe the rochester rally.....plan on attending? (good luck to rolling thunder too)

As for us, we should have ours finished by friday or saturday all we're working on now is getting our picking up mech. finished and mounted and coding....

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We're getting closer to finishing. We have a working chassis and conveyor belt, rotator and shooter are mounted and have been tested, but not controlled in the way they will be now. We need to build the trough system to get balls to the shooter, and put on the stopper we've designed (uses one servo instead of one pneumatic, saves us 8-10 lbs for not having the pneumatics instead).

Electrical has the control board finished, and is finishing the wiring on the RC. They still have to mount 3 sensors, but that's about it.

Programming has just about all manual code written, and we know what we're doing for autonomous and have all the tools set in place, so that should get taken care of too.

Now we just need to test everything and see what breaks.

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I stopped worrying at the end of today's build. We just have one more major part to build, and then we are done! We got the Megamaid spinning up today to do some sucking, and boy is that thing noisey! I hope there isn't a decible limit.

Our robot just vaporizes those balls, it's insane!

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umm, our robot? it's on its way. we won't make scrimmage though, well i don't know maybe, a big maybe.

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Almost there....

There will be a few long days of programming & mechanical shakedown yet, but we should be ready for the Wildstang Invitational on Sunday.

Barring any unforeseen problems, of course ;)