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Madtown is up fine tuning stuff. Our sophomore programmer just turned one of our motors into a 20,000 position servo I’m so glad he knows what he's doing I have no clue freaken genius

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Ya were running "a little behind" but were going to make it. luckly weve got plenty of the dew to keep us running until we crate this beast up.:cool:

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Team 549 is still hard at work....
We got rid of our suction cup earlier, and were working on making our arm better....
We also started re-skining our ramps.

I'm tired....and we are starting early tommorow

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Ya were running on Amp we are basically testing and retesting we gotta weigh tomorrow so were crossing our fingers for light weight we were 2 lbs over this mourning. Our programmer is working on his Servo motor thingy I have no clue but apparently we'll be able to click a potentiometer into a position a well be able to be at any of the set heights.

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left at 4:30 am yesterday... went back at 3pm... left at 11pm... i'll go back at 3 again, and my guess be up for a while.

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We do nearly all our own machining on team 100.

Seeing that we are total noobs, it often takes us unreasonably long times to machine simple mechanisms. It is not unusual for us to work in the machine shop until midnight.

We have been pulling all-nighters since we finalized our design four weeks ago!

It took us a draw dropping 27 hrs of machining to make a simple worm-drive for the big-CIM. There was one night when we worked on it until 2:00 am!

Fortunately, we bolted on the last mechanical component today and it will now be programing's turn to toil into the wee-hours of the morning ;)

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We're letting out around 12:00 tonight, starting at 10:00 AM (Mon) till X Tuesday morning (when they come to pic up our 'bot)

(I'm painting the crate and tuning up the mascot suit tommorow! (lucky me)

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We left at 2am, back at 9am.

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Now thats effort!

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Were still here but our whole robot is working freaken sweet!!!!!!!!!!!

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I've got to watch the kiddies, skipping classes today for this. My college doesnt count Presidents Day as a real holiday.

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we're working hard on it as i type... programming a beast

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got out of the machine shop at 2:30 am yesterday, still awake right now, not fun.

only 6 weeks is too hard on the mentors

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just got done for the night... a two hour nap and then driving practice! :D

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We've been in the shop since around 10 AM Friday.

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I'm up late...but not for robots...more like fine arts final.

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Well I see 340 and 424 have been up all night long working.
They're on 13 Wham News Morning show after doing so.

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Nope, our robot ships out at about 3 or 4 PM today, so whatever we have done as of this afternoon is it for us.

I wish we did have until Tuesday to work on it, but we make sure it gets to our shipping handlers early to ensure there's no last minute problems such as "the robot won't fit in the crate!!?!?"

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Unfortunately for the state of Texas, we have a STANDARDIZED test tomorrow which for the juniors is an exit level test so we get to leave our robot an hour earlier than other school nights...Just our luck...Don't you love state standardized tests?!?

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I've been doing 12 hour shifts for the last two days, and will probably be in longer today... (9 AM start, 9 PM end, repeat.)

(This is what happens when the team decides that the majority of electrical and programming work will be left for the last weekend of build...and add on top of that the functional testing going on...:o )

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Just be sure to wake them up before they go-go.



har har

Andy B.

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My computer screen is starting to hurt my eyes. I was up all night last night working on the chairmans/woody flowers submissions due to the fact that the chairmans team consists of 5 professional procrastinators. And it looks like I'm going to be writing all day again today.........tonight is parent night for HOT so all of our submissions have to be presentable. *Groan*

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We would have been had we found a female chaparone, we were going to stay up all night...back to work this morning though!

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1281 will be adding the gripper and probably mostly testing... if we have time we will try and find a way to add 20 lbs to the robot. I thing we are at around 97 lbs now, and our robot is under 4ft.

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Looks like wer'e going to gary's house tonight to finish everything up hopefully. i hope his neighbors wont freak out when they see a robot roling arround the street

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LoL Just tell them to call mine they are used to by now. However they were a little perplexed when we put the rack in the middle of the road and blocked off the streets for a practice run. We put our hours in last week, I went 5 straight days of 4-5hours of sleep between stopping and starting again. Its fun, but gotta get things done.

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Yuppers!
A few of 108's kids will be packing up the crate tonight and of course making a few adjustments as well before the robot finally goes in!
((I had to make all those silly lists for/of everything so, those will be executed tonight as well))
I can't wait for it!

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we stayed all night on team 1717. and slept in the classroom next door to the robot room(converted physics classroom). some people are still running on an all nighter. were grinding it. only about a half a pond to a pound overweight.
-coop

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We don't have that luxury. Bedford sucks. But anyway, we barely finished ours, and we're hoping that we get some extended time to work on it during competition time before our first match.

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We think that we're doing pretty good. We're just finishing up a few last problems. We're also giving our operators as much practice to compete. then we're going to pack the robot for shipping and get ready. Good luck all!

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We are all done, the bot is ready for pickup.

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We are!!!
Team 1254 is here doing finishing touches like softening edges that will touch the carpet. We worked 14 hours Sunday, 12 Saturday.

We have limits from the school on hours we can work.
Tonight until 11 pm and it will be in the box by then.

Pickup scheduled for between 10 and 4 pm Tuesday.
Then we are on to the rest of the jobs - sorting parts to take, banner upgrades, buttons, trading cards, awards to take, and a multitude of other jobs to do.

Good luck everyone on finishing tonight.

See some of you at GLR and Detroit.:)

Carolyn Hinckley
Teacher - Team 1254

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=D Shipping tomorrow, whoo! (here till 12)

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I would but...My Finals start tomorrow.


Priorities priorities...

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We had to stop at 7, but the robot is coming okay.
All that's left is some programming for the elevator, and minor tweaks.
We are actually under weight for once!

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ill be up late...studying.
robot is in the crate.

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Team 95 is currently pulling an late-nighter. Driven mode is working beautifully, and we're practicing ramp climbing and tweaking autonomous to try and improve reliability (we're batting 500 right now, with no camera ;) ).

At some point we'll pack it in for the night and call it good.

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Our team is running super late... still proging... well, just started to prog on Fri... we're a lil stumped rt now... and trying to work on chairmans... cram time...

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Well, ask away if there's anything we can all do to help.

We're starting to crate. Goodnight, all!

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Bagged and Tagged! lol

237 is done and the bot was in the crate since 9pm tonight.

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12 o'clock tomorrow is slowly creeping on. I don't think we are going to be able to actually leave. We are all still here trying to finish programming. It's going pretty smooth but there are still a few kinks. We just finished our cart. We ordered pizza, not enough of course, I hope it's enough to keep us going. I want a sobe. We still have to figure out how to get that dang crate outside...

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There was something about watching 4 seniors help their coach crate the robot for ship, thinking about their rookie year and how much they've learned, grown, matured. 'Til they started chasing each other around the shop with pool noodles they'd found. :) We left at 9:30, I think.

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We are still putting the finishing touches on the bot. Making labels and making sure everything is ready for tomorrow. Pick up the truck at 9am, pack our crate, hit 945 (colonial hs) at noon and load their crate, then off to 665 (oakridge hs) to get theirs and then have to be at the drayage company by 4pm.....thats when they close.


Whew.....and then home to sleep

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I'm down at St. Cloud working on 1390s robot with Barry and a few other mentors. We're going to be finishing up electrical, the mechanical ramp deploy, and a few other things probably right up until we stick it in the crate at 1:30 tomorrow. However, I think we're going to have it nice and clean by the end. :)

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Robot is in the crate, labeled and locked. Shop is clean, and we are waiting for pickup (between 1 and 3 tomorrow).

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1293 isn't up late but I am.

The things us programmers do...:p

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For the first year ever, we didn't have a mad dash to finish the robot. Aside from the banebot transmission, oh EVIL banebot transmissions! (curse their cruel demon-spawned black hearts of malice), things went surprisingly smooth for us this season. Our progs even got incredibly lucky, first time running arm code with memory positions and it worked perfectly.

ANd then, at around 5-6ish the banebot transmission violently died, we decided to keep it and ship our arm in parts in the crate. Slapped our brand spankin new wheels on, took it our mentor's classroom and crated the sucker up.

Hard to believe it's gone.

Good luck to all the teams who have a LOOONG night ahead of them. May the spirit of the Dew keep thee awake.

-Chris

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Team 753 just started tonight (All other pics were phoney) :)

In all seriousness, we're "finishing" up our robot, we just to fix the grabber, fix the lift, and possibly add the carbon-fiber panels...

[edit]we scraped the carbon-fibers[/edit]

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Team 1351 is up the river. We're just finishing putting cables in on the arm, which has been shortened so it can't reach the top ringer. Our chassis is a little messed up now as well. Fortunately, it's a software problem (not my department). Our bumper brackets were removed and cheese-holed recently; when they were put back on the robot the bumpers didn't fit. Every bracket is slightly different... and only fits the bumper when it's in the correct corner of the robot. Furthermore, the bumper flames are on the wrong way-that's gonna look queer. Our project manager has broken down, and i've lost my work ethic. Software just gave up, and now we're going home. My laptop is being closed right now.... as i finish typing this post.

Good luck everyone.

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Take a fews days off, plan, and regroup. Trust me, personal mentoring experience has shown that you can be in very dire straits on ship date (never having tested code on the final robot, 15 lbs overweight, and several systems just plain not working) and still pull it together. Figure out what's working, what's not, and ask lots of questions here.

Good luck.

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I just finished the first round of editing on our Chairman's Award submission, cut it down from 130 characters over to almost 200 under the limit...my gosh, it's almost 2...so yet again, I doubt I'll be fully functional tomorrow.

I miss the robot already. :(

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We'll be finishing up our Chairmans last minute...

We just scrapped our ramps systems to make an incredibly (more) efficient grabber and lift, we'll post them later...(assuming we finish ;)).

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Wahoo! I'm finally home! 5 fuses and 2 Spikes later and a battery relocation later, we found the short on our robot, and finally got the robot's weight balanced. We drove it for the first time in competition state shortly after midnight.

We're getting better. Last year we pulled out at 2:30, and the year before at 4. We were ready to go at 1:30 but it took a little longer than we expected to crate the robot (normally we crate around lunchtime).

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well friday night we pulled an all nighter to try and get ready for saturdays scrimmage. We weren't ready but went with our bot anyways.
Sunday I was at tech till 11:30 something and had to go home becuase I just applied for my new liscense and still have a legal cerfuw. Today I was there till like 11:40. And we just found out we are pretty over weight. And we have to ship tomorrow at 6 pm.
We were hoping to make this year the first year that the bot was ready by the first regional. It is looking a little slim now but I still have quite a bit of hope. Luckily we have no school tomorrow. It is lik teh school board knows or something lol

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We closed the crate (with a finished robot) at 10 PM. A first for us in a few years.

It's a strange feeling not having to make a list of what "ABSOLUTELY" needs to be done at the regional and making a "would be nice... if we felt like getting around to it" list instead.

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YARLY. Sometimes the list of things that "would be nice" is a little long though ;)

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Who's up late tonight? Well, of course 604. See, tradition demands that we go late working on the night before ship date.

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It just hit 12:06 here, were 1.7lbs over-weight!
Were chesse-holeing everything!
We still need a place to hold the Alliance Flag, our Team #, and a place for our great sponsors...

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Late? There is no definition for that word when it is the night before shipdate.

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1610 finished at 3:15 am when the robot was crated...lots of tired kids and mentors...
sheesh when it positively, absolutely has to be done in 6 weeks.....

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668 here at 2:11 in the morning with no hope of gaining our sanity at any point in time. We are talking backwards, walking in a crooked line, and typing crazily.

so yeah, fun times...

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5:15 am, the code guys are at work, the mechies are making small fixes and a few of us are desperately doing last minute homework reading (with occasional CD breaks of course)

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its 5:50 AM and I haven't gone to bed yet. I'll try to get some video once everything is working, we have yet to have a fully successful deployment of ramp, or score a ringer. I usually have a promo video up by this point, no such luck this year. It will be ready for UCF. Fine tuning.


I'm looking forward to my midterm today! :yikes:

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The legendary Team # 8 has been at our lab since Thursday 3:00pm. We have sleeping bags and couches set up for all of us to get two hours of sleep a night. I've gone home once since we've moved in because i was almost going mad. We have showers and washing machines set up for everyone to use =P Our robot is just about done and we ship around 11am.

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Oh my... what do you do about school/work and whatnaught? That seems to be a bit extreme :eek:

So who's up late tonight?