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I told a friend the other day, "It's robotics season; I no longer know what sleep is."

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Similarly to Zoheb. Our team (118) meets for kickoff at UHCL and than we got to know each other afterwards for a few hours. Than sunday we spent 5 hours on functions of the bot and I have done about 6 hours of work researching designs + parts we can use and around 3-4 hours (cause i couldn't sleep) on the website....

Pavan.

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haha 118! great job last year at Texas! it sucks we broke down in the last match of the finals. -_- what regional are you guys going to this year?

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about 5 hours as a team, about 48 hours brainstorming individually

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Lets see, saturday was a total of 16 hours....sunday was a total of 12 hours....and 10 hours on monday night, this doesnt include cad time, whichis probably an additional 5-6 hours


TOTAL: 38

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Sat(kickoff)- i was here from 7a-5p (10hrs) we did planing and problem identification
Mon- 2:20 - 5, we brainstormed ideas and discussed rules
Tue- 2:20 - ? (we are here now) eliminating/ chosing ideas

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Kickoff started at 9:00 AM, BAE showed a video to our team then they watched the feed. Go back to the high school and discuss until 6:00 PM. Following day start at 12:00 end at 6:00 PM. Last night we were at the school until 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM.

That would be a total of 18 hours (assuming kickoff ended at 12:00, I wasn't paying attention to the time at that point).

In the first couple of weeks we spend 6 hours on Sundays 3 hours on weekdays and 9 hours on Saturdays. That's 30 hours a week. :ahh: The days get longer towards the end of build season.

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The team officially met:
Sat. 3pm-6pm
Monday. 6pm-9pm

I've spent:
Sat. 2 hours to record kickoff + 3 hours @ meeting.
Sunday. Worked 4-5 hours trying to get that camera to work!
Monday 3 hours @ meeting(working on the camera + 1-2 hours @ home (working on the camera).

~15 hours since kickoff.

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i was at the kick off for like 7 hrs. then monday we had a meeting for 3 hrs...so yeah thats 10 hrs... our schedule is like monday -thursday,saturday- we have meeting like 16 hrs. a week... so yeah i only have like 2 hrs to get my hw. done... omg!!! and i have to write like 6 papers and its due friday! omg! i havent start any of it!!!

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Two hours?!?!? What luxury!!

Trust me, eventually you'll get used to it. If we didn't get used to not having enough time to get everything done, we'd all be dead by now.

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Don't let the robotics part of your life take over the school part of your life. I don't want to see all of you fail classes over the robotics program. It is great to do all this work but just don't over do it.

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Saturday: Noon-3 = 3 Hours
Monday: 5PM-8PM = 3 Hours

6 Hours so far. We are meeting again in about half-an-hour so im sure we will put in another 3 or 4 hours tonight.

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Today we had a meeting from 2:10-5:30. We wrapped up the CAD design and went through the KOP more extensively, assembled the gearboxes (and only stripped one bolt :P), got to work on the control board, and sent in some CAD drawings to be CNC'ed.

Tomorrow we are meeting at 3:04, aka after school, I also have to order parts during school tomorrow. Order gearboxes and CIMs, talk to the CNC guy, etc.

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Saturday: 7-4 (9 hours)
Monday: 2:30-5:00 (2.5 hours)
Tuesday: 2:30-6:00 (3.5 hours)
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Total: 15 hours.

Not so bad... Got a decent amount done too. At least from the programming team =P

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I have a question.... Do CD hours count as research or anything??

Pavan.