Clues you have procrastinated:
 

1. Items on your to-do list for the last day include "hook up pneumatics," "program autonomous," "build ball loader," and "get under weight."

2. Your sleep schedule consists of the time between meetings.

3. With two days left, you are almost done with crucial design decisions.

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Hey Chriszuma... Just asking but what have you guys been doing for the last, uh, 44 days?

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- It's finally time to install the IFI-Loader.

- All tolerences are now an order of magnitude looser.

- Nobody knows which side of the robot is the front.

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We have reached the point of Dremeling on a CNCed frame rail. Tolerances have gone out the window. The electronics, and shooter/turret/elevation have not been mounted on the robot. The conveyor drive motor/gearbox has not been mounted on the robot. Two chain tensioners still need to be mounted on. One chain still has to be put on.

You could say we're a bit behind.

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Chriszuma you bet noone can top you on that, but youre dead wrong. As of 1am Monday morning, our robot's motors are completely unwired, all coding is still printf-based, our turret has yet to be completed or mounted to the bot, other various ball handling pieces have not been created or tested, there is no autonomous code, and there are both a defective circuit board and a dead speed controller. We are worried that the parts themselves wont be ready to even be shipped in the box, much less test our code or put the thing together.
Sign tomorrow will be a longgggg day

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When your robot has not yet drived on its own and you are posting on CD at 1AM on one of the computers in your auto shop.

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When you finally picked up your kit of parts.....yesterday.

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When your transmissions are still not on the robot

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when your frame is still in the KOP box and at this current point there is still no rolling chassis created

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When you are reading this list and thinking...

Whew. It's not just us.

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When you can't mount your shooter yet because the loader isn't done because it wasn't designed until yesterday. And you still don't have a) the parts for mounting it and b)don't know what you need. Thank [EXPLETIVE] that ship is tomorrow.

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When you have scheduled a meeting until 12am because you know you will have to swisscheeseify something before it goes into the crate.

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...when you just find out that your controller board was defective two days before shipping because the electronics board was not in existence until then.

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Wait... Kickoff is on the 21st right? I can't wait... has a clue been released yet?

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I don't know what you are all talking about. We are going to make the March 21 ship date with time to spare.

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When on the day before it ships, everything you have is still a prototype.

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when you are burned out and still working on the robot. :(

when you are so hungrey the day before ship, you start chewing on the wiring thinking it's spaggehti (when you can't spell for beans) :yikes:

when you are praying that your electronics won't have another, yes I repeat another, potentially catastrophic failure. :mad:

this post is done.

P.S. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE SLEEP CAN BE PURCHASED!!!!!

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If you wait until the last minute...it only takes a minute to do!

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I have never procratinated in my entire.....(I finsh this post later)

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...When you realize your robot needs to work in order to compete.

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here :D

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... when you have just as just completed your first time driving and testing your robot at 3:25 pm PST monday the day before you ship.

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when the entire team is crowed around the computer reading when therer is a god awful amount of work to do....

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Procrastinators unite tomorrow!!! :D

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When your captain tells you to finish the base by sunday night, and you are the one making the design.

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When the CAD model is still changing rapidly.

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When we your are almost done witht the robot and it looks great but you go weight it and is 44 lbs over weight. :(

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it wasn't so much procrastination as poor weight planning
but we redesigned and built everything except our drive system and collector in the last two days because our shooter and feeder mechanism weigh way much and there was no way we could cut out enough holes to make weight

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when you're only posting because your dremel is recharging.

when you're considering showering to remove the layer of PVC dust that covers your entire body, but deciding against it on the grounds that you just can't waste those 5 minutes.

no one has actually driven your bot yet.

you finally have proof of concept... 16 hours before shipping.


you took your bot's main offensive component home to overhaul because it tore itself apart in testing... again, 16 hours before shipping.

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when you are the driver...and only got to practise for 5 mins before it had to be shipped! and have no way of practising until the competition! *starts freaking out*

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when your programmers are so used to doing autonomous mode at the first regional that they don't bother to complain :(

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wow i can't beleive you guys. my team has had our tetra arm working for at least a week.

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tetra arm? wait a second. uumm did i miss something. *checks date of post* uumm no shooter, ball harvester, basket, uumm never mind. *runs to manuel to check if i am just confused here*

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okay weigh in again and we lost some pounds but still 16 pounds over without battery and shooter and basket and ..... sigh we have work to do.

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Hmmm... Its is 2:49AM and we are still debugging everything. Our robot ships in 14 hours and 11 minutes. Only fab left to do is a funnel and a gate. We may finish our bot by 8:00AM, which is when our school opens so we can practice inside....

Gotta love those good all-nighters.

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... You work on the robot for 26 hours without sleeping ....

... and it's "pretty much done."

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you shiped the robot without programing the cam