How far are teams right now? Behind Schedual?
 

Our team has gone threw about 3 complete robot designs and finally last night parts started to get order. Other then that, we have been doing alot of training, but the build season is going to really kicking off for us next monday and have a running chassis hopefully by a week from friday.

Do alot of teams have there chassis and electrical boards done?

Programming Working on Hybrid Mode?

Chassis built or designed?

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You're further ahead than my team was last year. We realized about this time that our design did not fit in the 72x72 box (somehow we overlooked that rule) and had to throw it out and redesign...

This year, we currently have shipments coming in soon from AM (mostly drive components: wheels, idlers, two speeds, sprockets), and some stuff from McMaster (mostly electrical parts, plus some aluminum angle for axle mounts). Our goal is to assemble the drive system by early next week (maybe by the end of the weekend, depending on shipping times). Our [mechanism] design is currently in prototyping, and if it performs well, it will be built pretty quickly in the next couple of weeks (it isn't very complicated).

Programming hasn't started yet, but I hope to get that moving either this weekend or early next week.

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Ha. There's not a schedule!:D (just kidding)

We're doing okay, and should chose our final design based on 5 other designs by Friday.

Good luck this year!

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My team is surprisingly ahead this year, but no doubt it will catch up to us. We dismantled our bot from last year and set up the drive train on it that we would be using this year so we could practice with it. And the programmers or working with vex right now to try and get all of the program ready well before the ship date. Good luck to everyone else

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For once, we're actually ahead of schedule.

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Well holidays here are not helping us a lot =/

Most of our mentors and engineers *and also our main sponsor* are on 'vacation '

Due to this forced not-working time n also because our KoPs are not here yet, are doing only some researches, studying bout how can we do Dean's homework well...and this theorical work...
:(

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lilac has your team done any brain storming with the game? that is always a good start and then you could give your mentors an idea where you want to go.

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We're ahead of last year, but still probably behind some other teams. :(
We do have a nice working electronics board, though.:cool:

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Our team is operating way ahead of the ball this year (pun intended)... as a rookie team last year, none of the students knew anything about engineering or programming going into the season... this year we set up a fairly comprehensive series of Saturday morning lectures to go over all the basics, which already puts us about 2 weeks ahead of where we were last year.

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Oh, yeah

we have, but only using MSN =/

I really dont know why, our sponsor doesn't like us to meet when there is none mentor, or when we meet outside the school...
so we are brainstorming by the phone too

hahahahah...

*am afraid of the bill in the end of the month!*

We've got some good ideas, but we are seeing if they really worth the try.

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We pretty much finished our chassis yesterday, which puts us a day behind our planned schedule. Working with PBS has eaten a number of hours over the past couple days. We are working out the details of our manipulators, and getting encoders and such things installed for the programming team.

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Our team is actually a bit behind, as of right now we are trying to figure out the drive train and the speed of the gears to see how fast we want the robot to be going. :ahh:
Our first meeting was yesterday and that went swimingly :D
So hopefully by next monday we will have a design and start on the mechanical part of the robot :)

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that's pretty astonishing. Your robots always gets a grade of A+.
We just completed our base and our working on our "Eiffel Tower" pillars now.;)

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Ahead of Schedule. Chassis was due to be done by the end of the week -- We're looking at tonight/tomorrow. We've got a few proto grabber mechanisms (3 I think), all are full sized and one is fully functional.

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Working with a third party can really slow things down. Its like they want to see certain things based on "their" schedule. But, its only for the benefit of the team. We have something going on similarly with George Lucas films right now.

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Last year we didn't have anything machined until week 3.

Now that we can do the work ourselves and don't have to rely on time donated by sponsors, we should be done with our frame, wheels, bearing housings, and cams for tensioning the drive chains by Monday or so.

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Team 858 started to build tonight...obviously not that far, but we started our build

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Impressive as always Cory. We are using a sliding bearing block instead to tension our bike chains. We are using a double sprocket in case **** happens and can switch the chain over for the front and rear wheels. Plus, we can mass produce the same sprockets no matter where they go.
Being next to you folks in the pit last year has truly been inspirational.
Thanks.:D

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At least a few days ahead if not a possible week by tonight,

Chassis is cut out and is almost ready for actual assembly.

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234 is doing pretty well. Last year, we spent like 2 weeks brainstorming, so it feels like we're flying. We decided on a chassis design, and we're getting closer to coming to a final manipulator idea. We are building our mock field and working to CAD our chassis. Also, our communications team has gotten busy on presentations and such. However, we're pretty much on the schedule we set after kick-off.

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So far we've decided on a chassis/drive train design, and we're almost done refining lift and arm mechanisms. We hope to start doing some basic building this week.

Today we sort of built our toughboxes, but we had a bit of trouble and need to fix a few issues we had.

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What is this "schedule" of which you speak, lol.

As far as progress goes compared to last year, I would rate us ahead, given that we didn't have a chassis till the middle of week 4, let alone a drivable one.

However, we've been designing since kick-off and we have basically decided upon drivetrain, but since the base of the robot hasn't been decided on, we can't build it. Our actuator is a different story, we've gone through at least 40 iterations total, and if you don't keep up, you'll miss at least 3, lol.

Hopes though are for design to be completed by the end of the week and building of the chassis to begin. If we accomplish it, it will be the greatest speed in which we've designed in the history of our team.

Programming is a different story, we're working on some new ideas right now that i'll just leave up to your imaginations. ;) But I will say that if we do everything we want to do, I won't say it would be completely autonomous, but it would be like hybrid mode the whole match.:yikes:

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Our team is already working on claw, chasis and drive train mock ups (We already decided on our design on Monday). Our Chairman's award entry will be done very soon (remember we don't qualify for the Chairman's anymore but we have to enter one to qualify for the HOF. The Chairman's not our main focus our HOF design is. So we quickly slap together a decent copy and focus on the HOF right after). The animation and Website are a little bit behind.

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We have prototyped a catapult already. Now we are working on articulated arm and elevator prototypes. Chassis will be started sometime between tomorrow and Saturday (still some debate on what our drive train should be and that will dictate how our chassis is).

In comparison to last year, we had our chassis done by Tuesday of the second week, and if we work with a drive system we are familiar with (4WD or 2 wheels centered with UHMW sliders on the corners) then we could make that date, but if we choose any of the other options being talked about, then it could take more time. As far as attachment last year, we didn't really start prototyping till week two, so I think we are ahead of our game this year.

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Our team is pretty behind schedule compared to you guys, we get 30 of us or so in a room and debate the possible options we come up with and we have back tracked several times to revote for various reasons...I hope we have a finalized design by friday so we can start building whereas some of you have already ordered....eesh

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Well, we were finalized yesterday. But today in a meeting we found some serious flaws after playing around in CAD, which forced a redesign (better now than later). We kind of mashed together two ideas and it was my job to model it. I just finished our robot, 90% complete. I left out a few things because they're minor details and I've been in Inventor for a little over 5 hours now. Basically I got the thing to come together and work properly.

We ordered all the metal and components for our chassis today. Should have the stuff by Monday and have our chassis done by mid next week. Tomorrow we'll be ordering stuff for the manipulator. The way the ball is rolling right now (could be a teaser....) we should be done by around mid 4th week or so (knock on wood). We're right on schedule.

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A little disappointed with our brain trust this year (I can only say that because I am design team head), we only came up with 2 plausible ideas, and are full-size prototyping one right now. Should have a robot mapped out (hopefully CAD'ed) by this friday.

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We are a Rookie team and we had presentations by various subgroups on their designs tonight. We are going to attempt to have our final design and strategy decided tomorrow night or Friday afternoon.

We have the two AM Tough Boxes put together with motors mounted and the electrical team has their basic system laid out. Our website is about to go live on Friday as well.
Education team got VEX kits yesterday for our mini-robot contest we will be doing for elementary and middle schools. They are going to build them to tomorrow and begin the progamming and troubleshooting their contest and design on Saturday.

Do not know if we are ahead or behind schedule of where others are, but we are on our schedule as we had planned at this point.
We will build our practice course and begin work on the chassis on Saturday.

We are excited. Thanks to teams 2158 and 418 for their help in the preseason. If it were not for them, we would not be where we are at this time.

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Our drivetrain is complete now minus the electronics, batteries, sensors, etc. We wait until the whole robot frame is completed before adding those in with the exception of certain sensor attachments. We started working on building our "Z" function today. We think we can finish that by the start of next week. Then we will focus on the apparatus (claw) to grab the ball efficiently.
CA, WF award, and pit crew stuff are way ahead of schedule.
We are behind on controllers and robot stand.:(

And most importantly, our largest concern, our snack refrigerator is depleted!

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We're done. :cool:

It's all designed, built, programmed, and powder-coated ... and we just got back some stuff from the paint and chrome shop.

Tonight we put it in the crate and shipped it to regionals. We almost didn't make the 7pm drop-off at the shipping company. :ahh:

If it wasn't for the late report from the NASA wind-tunnel testing we did yesterday, we could've shipped it by lunchtime.












(and if you believe that, I've got a used car I'd like to sell you! :D )

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ditto. we're still designing the rest of the bot tho.

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We are planning to have driving robot by the 13th. Here are some pictures to show our development, http://picasaweb.google.com/john.h.842
We plan making the drive train done as fast as possile, leaving us plenty of time for programming and designing extras. This plan have work well for three years now.

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i totally agree. tomorrow we're going to finish the robot design.

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Team 1757 has 1/3 of an operational drivetrain, and a design in mind, but nobody has done any real designing. As drivetrain guru, I'm a little worried about the rest of the bot, but I'm so focused on finally (after two years of depressing failure) getting a simple and effective drivetrain built that I'm sure the rest of the team has everything else under control...

Well, I'm pretty sure...

I mean, I saw them playing with a pneumatic cylinder...

That counts as designing, right...?

Maybe I am worried...

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well team a prototype six wheel drive train the new electronic r working on and the real six wheel drive drive is 90 percent done and should be up and running saturday our next meeting and one of our mentors who machines all our parts should have the rest or the mechacism done by saturday. our programmers r working on the hybid mode. so i say we r ahead or schedule.

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We seem to be on track with our deadlines so far. Our new drive train design was supposed to be finished last night, and everything is supposed to be designed by the time we close the shop on Wednesday, and our drive train should (hopefully) be completed by the end of week 3. We still haven't chosen a manipulator, but we're prototyping a few different ideas right now. So far, things are going much, much better than last year.

Unfortunately, our shop will be closed during finals week (week 4), so we have 5 weeks to finish a robot when we've had intense difficulties doing so in 6 in the past.

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The CAD finished uo most of the robot on inventor last night as all the 80/20 was ordered as well as more victors and motors. :-)

were about on schedual now.

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Dunno about everyone else, but we're still here waiting here for kickoff to start.:rolleyes:

We have like, 4-5 prototype manipulator systems, a couple with a frame mockup with it. A few drivetrain proposals are on those frames too.

We're hurdling. No word on hybrid/autonomous until we're more clear on our robot design.

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We have most of our designs squared away, the chassis is almost complete, and the programming team has finished creating code for the mecanums that's very organized (almost as if it would be organized in an object-oriented language like Java). We're starting on getting PID working (for the first time ever).

I'd say we're ahead of where we were last year, so we're in good shape.

Especially considering we still haven't received our Kit of Parts.

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We're still in our design stage, working with things on paper and inventor, but all teams have good ideas that they are working with. We should have something finalized, hopefully, tomorrow. We're on schedule :)

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We are still developing the chassis in sketches and Inventor, and should be expected to build the chassis next week and several other things

Good to see how other teams are doing, I'll have to bookmark this. :cool:

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We're about on schedule. It's my first year on the team, but it seems pretty rigorous. We've got some brainstorming done, and I'm pretty sure tonight will be it for prototyping. After that, we'll flesh out more work on the manipulator and get it fabricated ASAP. Since we've decided on the drive train, we'll be fabricating that now. Programming won't start for a while, but I hope we can at least try to get SOMETHING going soon. Better to start early, I say.

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We're completely done, and it's already in the crate :D . And if you believe that, I have this cool bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you...

We're essentially final on the chassis & drive system, parts ordered, some assembly is starting. Still some room for tweaking.

We've god good ideas for the manipulator, but nothing firm yet.

I'd put us a 2 days behind at the moment, not great for 4 days into the season...

Don

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I have a bridge in Brooklyn, too. Where's yours?

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we had a meeting saturday after kickoff, and pretty much evaluated everything and decided what we wanted our robot to do. since then we've completely rethought the idea maybe twice, but still came out pretty much the same design. our chassis is laid out, and we're doing some prototyping for our manipulators. our programmer has done as much as he can already, and even has the drive code pretty much written, and we're just waiting for parts to build the drive train, hopefully done by the weekend but unlikely, so he can make that work

we already received things from mcmaster, and our things from andymark were back ordered, so they'll get here tomorrow hopefully, and apparently some other things somehow got caught up at the customs office, so they won't get here till next week.

compared to last year, we're at least a full week ahead, if not two weeks. However, since we our parts aren't here yet, we've resorted to dis-assembling an older robot to make it into a cart

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our team is extremely far behind schedule at the moment due to the fact that most of our tools are under lock and key elsewhere where we cannot get them. we are trying to make due with tools brought from home but we are still searching for that mystical dremel cutting bit that no stores nearby seem to carry.
however frame is finger tightened at least and the electronics board has... well a bunch of marker marks on it for where things go.
tommorow we are moving shop to another team to share a shop with so hopefully there we will have more luck.

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TRX 145 is for once making our deadlines!!!!!!!. We have a (push) rolling chassis and device one all planned out. Maybe even device 2. I dont know cause i havn't been to a meeting in 2 days.

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Well we finally cut all the extruded aluminum, and tapped some of our wheels. Hopefully by Tuesday will have a chassis frame accomplished and the electrical team can get to work at it.

:D

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The TechnoKats are right on schedule. We had our design selection meeting this afternoon, and now we know what we want to build.

And we know we want to build two of it.

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I can't believe how far 1089 is so far this build.

We've got media packets almost done, judges packets halfway done, all our photos and media from previous years categorized, programming seminars done, field elements built, media contacts gathered, manual workshops done, and a manual test administered, among other things.

Oh, you mean the ROBOT? Oh, yeah, that's coming along too :)

(Well, we have some manipulator prototypes built, a prototype chassis and drive done, parts ordered for actual system, and strategy decided).

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Well, we have part of the kitbot built.... We're having trouble with the toughboxes from AndyMark, so that kind of halted things there. Our team still can't agree on game strategy and we have several ideas on a hurdling mechanism conceptualized, and a few are pretty fleshed out, but there are a few design flaws in each of them so far. Though for a 12 person team, we're not doing so bad, especially compared to last year.

Everyone who saw us at the Milwaukee regional last year thought it was pretty impressive that we were able to build half our robot on practice day of the regional. Needless to say we placed 48 out of 52. Two 5 hour fix-it windows later, we place 8 out of 39 at Chicago. I think we work well under stress, but I'd like to not have to do that again.

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Yeah we are having all kinds of issues with the AndyMark gearboxes, the tolerances on that thing is horrendous. I think both of ours are sitting in the scrap box right now :yikes: . As for time line I would say for a rookie team we are not doing too bad, the base should be moving tomorrow. Our electronics test panel was built the day of the kick off, so software has been under test for a while. One of the appendages has been fully modeled and is being CNCd over the next few days so it should be together by the end of next week. People on fund raising are continuing to bring in money and discounts.
With 15 people working for 3-4 hours each day, I would say we are not doing to bad at all.
...Now to write those essays that are due in the morning for English :D

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I have had bad experiences with being behind schedule so this year I decided to step up and fill out one of those large "At-A-Glance" calendars with all of the deadlines that we gave ourselves. I would say we are not behind schedule because so far, we've been doing everything on the calendar by all the deadlines i wrote down.

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We're know what we want to do. The problem is the ball. It's turning out to be a hard object to deal with. On Sat we intend to spend all day proto typing and working on ways to manipulate and throw the ball. Every thing else is on schedule, but if we can't find methods to manipulate the ball we're in trouble. Last night we went over the math. Now it's time to see if it is valid in the real world.

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Kat.... I'm on your team...
:D

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We have a pretty sweet prototype built. I like to call it the Warthog.

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We haven't purple powder coated anything yet this year. Translation: we're way behind schedule.

But it looks so good in CAD!

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We are on schedule....maybe even a little ahead:]

We have both our chasis and our electrical done, and our drive system is about an hour away from being completed. We will probably be driving later today. Our prototypes are done and we've all agreed on the design. All we really need to do is finish the "game-helper" (dont wanna give any of you guys clues for your robot :D ) and then practice with it. Although we only need to finish the "game-helper", it will take a while. We predict we will be practicing in about 1/2 weeks.

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Our team got our designs yesterday and ordered the parts. We started to make mock ups...so we arent really behind we are actually ahead of last year.

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we've had our tanktred cage milled with high pressure water guns, but i'm the programmer, so here's my Schedual strategy:

i'm ganna program it all before our mentor programmer even sees the design! i've already got hybrid done

peace of cake

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Hey Trav-O ... I should introduce myself. I'm your mentor programmer.

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Both 294 and 973 seem to be right on schedule; Both have final or near final designs decided and have been cutting parts since Sunday.

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1072's finals week lands right after kickoff every year. We're finishing up brainstorming right now :(

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We are right on schedule. We're finishing up our prototyping of 2 good designs. On Saturday morning we plan to select which design to stick with. We have done no building - except i threw the kitbot together last night - and I feel that we aren't behind at all. I think it's key to have a very detailed design (Pro-E/CAD helps) before you start building (learned from experiences last year).

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Well, I think we're doing okay. The upperclassmen decided what stragegy they want to pursue; after two years of playing "D" they want to go on the offensive and be a hurdler. We are planning on using the kitbot frame, as usual, and our standard 6-wheel drive system (although a little faster this year) and are putting our efforts into designing an effective hurtling mechanism. As always, the KISS principle rules supreme with us.

In terms of awards and paperwork stuff, we are WAY ahead just due to the simple fact that, for the first time, everything we did last year was well preserved. That means we have a huge jump on our submissions. And the p.r. person for our public school system is helping us with Dean's Homework; if you haven't contacted yours yet (if you have one; we're in a big inner city school district) I suggest it. They often have contacts with all the local media outlets; it can make your job a lot easier.

Good luck everyone, and have FUN!!!
:)

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Still ahead, here. Chassis's built. Preliminary votes on the manipulator are today. Mounting wheels, transmissions, and getting the drivetrain fully functional over the weekend. Should have electronics mounted and programmed next week for driving.

the custom wheels are on the CNC mill as are the custom motor/gearbox mounts.

This is strange. We're waaaaaay too good this year to be the 675 we used to know...

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I'm with 1886 (also known last year as the S.T.U.D.S)
Currently..... There is no schedule!:ahh:
Guess we cant behind then.

We got our frame done and are probably half way done with the electronics board. However, we have the laziest programmer in the world, so he hasn't started yet with any programming.
Hes great with hacking though. Last year he hacked the school computer system and wrecked it so now he's banned for life from the schools computers.:yikes:
Hopefully he gets here soon.

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we are, we should be building by now...

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Our team is about on schedule.... for the most part.:yikes:

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:confused: ;) :yikes: :) were doing good. getting the chassis done!!

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Well we are having Saturday practices already, but we should have the chassis and robot running now by tuesday! :-)

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After one week, we're doing fine...we scheduled that we would almost start really designing the robot about now, and indeed we are ready to start designing it!

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our team is doing quite a bit right now. Working on building the chassis and getting around the technical parts of it. As far as we've decided we're going with 2 speeds. A few of us are reading up on things but we're a little behind. We started the chassis yesterday like planned but it's not done yet and we're running short on time for day though we've got a good 3 1/2 hrs. We're still deciding USB steering wheel w/ petals or something else. We working on other stuff in the meanwhile and our programmers are moving well on learning new techniques. I can only saw we're slipping slowly behind.

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We're just starting to build our frame. We've been spending the last week just throwing around ideas.

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We are starting to prototype some of our designs, we just had a large meeting where we narrowed down a couple of key designs. we hope to start CADing today or tomorrow and start building by Tuesday.

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We're definitely a little behind. Not by much, a day or so, but still behind. Currently we're working on a new chassis, testing our IR board, and prototyping grippers.

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IR board!!! Meh, I think that someone got pushed to the backburner for us. I'll bring it up...

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we 1458 have been working hard the first week. We are protoing 2 manipulator designs and are debating rebuiliding our chassis or using an old one. Our electronics board is done without pneumatics and our programmers have been studying hybrid mode ideas.

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Bleah.
Today, we suddenly said, "Wait...does this ball-holding mechanism actually work?" So we stuck one together out of some pvc, duct tape, and meter sticks, mounted it on our robot from last year, and test drove.

Utter failure.

So we spent the rest of today figuring out how the heck we were going to get this to work.

We think we have a solution, and we're testing it in two days.

But..wow, how the heck do you guys get everything done so fast? o.O

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we are a tad bit behind because we ran out of Argon gas for the welder so i couldn't weld anymore and all work had to stop. Since I couldn't finish anymore stuff.

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We had a catapult design that we tested today... didn't work too well. The numbers we ran made it look like it should work, but it didn't. What it ended up being was a lot of fun (we tested with bricks, water jugs, and soda cans), but it just didn't accelerate fast enough to throw the ball very far. Unfortunately, the testing eventually destroyed the catapult. So, we are now behind, I think. Back to "square two" as a team member termed it.

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We get stuff done so quickly (well, most of us anyways) 'cause we're either basing our design off of previous ones, starting building the chassis right when we decide it's layout (as opposed to the grabber, we start everything as soon as possible), etc.

Our team got knocked off of our pace. One of our mentors didn't realize the error that one of our members made in the drawings and set us back a few hours.

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Ya so today some people cut all the extruded aluminum 1/16th or an inch to short... that kinda slowed us down... :-(

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for my team right now....we're on time for being us...but at the same time...yeah we're a little behind >.>

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Hey Coach! I'm just now reading this thread. It sounds like you guys are doing just fine! Good luck w/your design/build.

Yea for rookie teams!
Jane

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"Just when you think you know the rules, they change."

Re: How far are teams right now? Behind Schedual?
 

Well we have a chassis all the base electrics are done and programming have a manipulator and are working on finesse. Mainly getting the gyro to optimal efficiancy, first year of first is a charm!

Re: How far are teams right now? Behind Schedual?
 

I guess it is all relative........

We are about 2 weeks ahead of schedule from last year but it looks like we are 2 weeks behind others posting to this thread :cool:
We'll be fine as long as the parts that we are ordering come in at a timely fashion.

Main chassis built
Many of the programming bugs worked out
Lifting mechanism assembled but needing power
All prototypes built, checked and approved.

Re: How far are teams right now? Behind Schedual?
 

Well our team has already thought about wokring on the weekends. And exams are coming up soon so thats going to stick!!

Re: How far are teams right now? Behind Schedual?
 

You don't already? Almost every team I know utilize weekends. It's practically essential to the schedule. But there are exceptions which prohibit some teams.

Re: How far are teams right now? Behind Schedual?
 

Our team has the design decided and are prototyping the gripper. We have the majority of the chasis built and are deisigning parts in Inventor. This season is looking great relative to the last 3 years. I'm siked.

Right on Schedule!
 

We had our very first unanimous design vote! It's official: Elevator this year instead of arm. We finished our design process yesterday and began our Solidworks design. The fast decisions were helped along by our mentor's declaration of "No one eats lunch until our robot is designed!" The entire robot has been mapped out and electronics should be designed by next week. I volunteered to be the person responsible for the electronics and raised my hand before realizing that I have had almost no electronics experience. I hope our robot turns out alright...

Re: How far are teams right now? Behind Schedual?
 

Thank you.

We did not get the course building done, but we got our chassis done with driving capabilities on Saturday afternoon. We also prototyped our steering mechanism with VEX kit. The programming team worked on the steering code.

It was great to see it drive. We are waiting on wheels we have ordered so we can move forward with the design.

Re: How far are teams right now? Behind Schedual?
 

We have finished our electrical board, placed it on chasis, chasis is done. Drive system is done. We started to prototype our lifting system, and it is almost done.

Now we need to make our real lifting and program our robot and start testing:)

Re: How far are teams right now? Behind Schedual?
 

we JUST decided on our robot design at the end of the most recent meeting. We now have 5 weeks to design and build our first ever 2 speed transmission, our first ever forklift type lift/elevator, and a unique belt sinch grabbing mechanism. Too much to chew? maybe. lets find out!

Re: How far are teams right now? Behind Schedual?
 

I wouldn't mind having a couple of things assembled at the moment, but I can live with where we are.

Parts have been identified for drive, and will be ordered when one of our sponsorship checks clear. We've figured out a general design direction for our manipulator, and now have to get folks on CAD to determine exactly how much of what we need.

Basically, we know what we're doing--we just have to mash that "export to reality" button.

Re: How far are teams right now? Behind Schedual?
 

i think our team is behind schedule cuz its been over a week and we havent even started the chassis yet.

Re: How far are teams right now? Behind Schedual?
 

Our team has a complete conceptual design. Got a VEX prototype working and ordered the parts for the chassis yesterday. Got the pipe cut for the field.

We figure we're about 3 days behind where we wanted to be, but then, we don't stock a lot of stuff and have to order it as we go.

Steve

Re: How far are teams right now? Behind Schedual?
 

All parts were ordered Monday and Tuesday of last week and everything should be in Monday... We expect to be done by the end of three week... but you never know with this competition, there's always room for something to go wrong. Good thing is frame and drive is almost done, programming is done, and everything is in CAD.

Re: How far are teams right now? Behind Schedual?
 

Our schedule is to have a working bot in the crate by ship date, and after three unanimous votes about what kind of bot it'll be I think we're doing pretty well. We have a working prototype and are ready to start on the final chassis tomorrow, just as planned.
It'll be interesting to see how other teams face the challenge of getting a giant excercise ball up six and a half feet in the air, and how well their ideas work on the field.

Although we had a working chassis this time last year and were working on the manipulator, I think our Overdrive bot will be better because we took the time to make sure we had a driveable prototype. We learned a lot from Rack 'n Roll, including how hard a rectangular bot with tank drive and a wheel at each corner can be to steer.

We're having fun with a slightly different drivetrain, and electronics is going to have an interesting time fitting all the components onto an atypically shaped board, but... I suppose that I'm probably not authorized to give away all of our secrets yet.