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We split up our progress between a handful of groups, and it is all coming to gether very nicely. Our robot should be drivable and ready for programming by tonight or tommorrow. What's taking the most time is that we have only one person working on the hardest part of our drivetrain, but we really can't have more people help him, because only one person can really work on it at one time. But he's pretty much done with it, and the chassis is together, the arm is basically done, the electronics board is waiting to be mounted, and we only need to attach the chains to the wheels, and then we can give it to our programmer for the next two weeks.

Also, our rack and crate are both together waiting for use.

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We've got most of our bot done. She runs good and she has some power behind her. We just have to do all the finishing touches and she will be 100% done.

*thinks* Maybe we can use duct tape to finish it? I'm such a redneck,lol.

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We should hopefully be finished by saturday. providing we work hard the next couple of days.:D

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we are this far: http://www.othsstudents.k12.il.us/ex...undercon.shtml

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were done




jk ya right, but we are doing great everythings done except for are "playing the game mechanism", which is undercover for now.

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Okay, so we're so close to being done now. It's just tweaking some things before we consider ourselves done becuase we jsut need to finish the final gripper and ramp. This may actually be our first time to attend scrimmage.

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we should be done fabricating tomorrow...then all wired up by monday..programming through thursday..then stripping it..sending it to paint..then the fun part of putting it back together!!

we gotta give huge props to our new sponsor this year. you guys might know them..

PELCO!!!:D

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We are done with our practice robot and monday our competition robot should be finished and driving by tuesday.:)

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Our robot is done, but there is major weight issues. Turns out the 1515 for the forklift and grabber is too heavy. We put in an order for 1515 lite (which will shave 20lbs. off our robot), so its just a matter of re-cutting and assembling the new lighter forklift, which takes about 2 hours (bless 80/20 and it's easiness to mount and cut). The only issue is we won't have it until later next week.

For driving and programming purposes, the current robot works fine, so we will continue to practice until we get the replacement 1515. Worst comes to worst we can assemble and replace the material over the weekend. The current stuff on there is still the same exact dimensions and functions exactly the same.

As far as programming, today we mainly concentrated on the drivetrain and chassis movement. We dialed in the program for that, as well as the CMU cam movement for autonomous.

Next week we will finish programming for the forklift, for both human controlled and autonomous mode.

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Its all up to our programmer now.

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same here!

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Mechanically we've got to finish the ramps, pneumatics, and bumpers, all of which are partly or mostly done already. On electrical they're pretty much down to wiring sensors and finishing up the operator interface.

Us programmers have practically all our code done, and a good 1/3 to 1/2 of it tested, we just need the full robot now to test the rest.

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we have a little bit more to do. arm is on the bot, electrical will be done tomorrow, hopefully will see it all moving before i head back to school. then, just ramps left to fabricate and put on the bot, quincy, last minute fixer uppers and.. ship!

CRUNCH TIME!!:ahh:

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we are about 4.5 days behind... its crunch time...

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Is anyone ever really done?
There's always something that would be done faster or way to get just a little more power out of the motors or tighten up the autonomous. Even the best robots in FIRST history weren't perfect. Even if the robot is competition ready now is the time to tweak it to make it even better.