How Close are you to done?
 

Since our team is done with everything but autonomus, i just wanna see how other people did.

if you please would give feedback on why you are at your certain point in the build.

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well, we drive, and the hopper's pretty much ready to be bolted on. Looks like we're either going to have to scrap the shooter or do that part at competition

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we messed up? well.. we are trying to do more than i think we can handle..

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Hmm... We've got everything working laid out... But we still need to actually build the thing. :D

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Machining and welding should be wrapping up tomorrow night. Then, we have to assembly and wire everything.

EDIT. omg, we're screwed. I just found out that our gears were machined wrong, and the shifting dogs won't fit in as lossely as they should. This is bad.
EDIT2. with a little filing, a little grease, and a little more air pressure, it should be okay. And the programmers will enjoy the minimized backlash.

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Its definitly an advantage to the team when your school has a state of the art welding and machining lab, a cad lab with a 3D printer, and students who know how to utilize the equiptment, and teachers who believe in FIRST. it makes meeting ship date much easier, and your robot more efficient.

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I suspect we will finish on Sunday... :)

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sorry to hear that. we had a mistake like that with our launcher, but we found that out early enough to remedy it. Looks like you'll be using at least part of your 25 lbs of fabricated parts to competition.

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Will the KOP transmission fit? There are much worse things in the world...

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i have always wonder... are there actual high schools that have such labs? O_O and they offer courses on using these? O_O... if so.. what high school and what state.. I WANNA TRANSFER! lol

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90-100, building the robot only needed some last twiking and the shielding for our firing mechanism

programing is at 10% though, they got the cannon working and the robot drives (sort of) but no autonemous, I hope they make it, they start their work tomorrow

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Being done is a state of mind which only occurs after winning nationals...But we're close to finishing the robot, everything is designed and most is already assembled into sub-components but its the putting everything together part, probably finished sat night or sunday after we make sure it'll meet weight

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1023 is coming along. We have our unveiling tonight and plan to spend the rest of the season practicing, programming, and fine tuning. We set last Sunday as the last day for any major changes to the robot. We are just under weight and things are looking pretty good, assuming nothing breaks.

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At 1251's highschool Atlantic Technical Center Magnet Highschool we have a full machine shop with a few CAD machines and a full welding shop, the highschool is a technical highschool and offers courses in both areas along with many different varieties of courses from nursing to webdesign.

O and were about 70-80% done, we have our shooter on 2 out of 3 gearboxes built, and all we really need to do now is get our hopper welded on along with our ball collector

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The drive train is complete...well, sort of, we are going to put lower low-speed gears on tonight or tomorrow...

The pickup system works beautifully, and our hopper is taped together, ready for construction tonight...

I don't know about autonomous, for I've been busy with the hopper lately, but I reckon that we'll be alright there...

All in all, we should be finished building tomorrow night, then we can move on to drive team selection/training...using last year's main driver, I reckon, new co-pilot, though...

Also, on that drivetrain of ours, we had some trouble with handle-ability, so we slowed the motors (4 CIMs) down to half torque... and the thing would still push me (210 lbs) around in a regular desk chair (the kind without wheels)!
Yes, when we get the new gears in, we will turn the motors back up to full torque. :D
BE AFRAID!

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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 ;)