Re: Team Status
 

Right now, team 1554 has part of the chassis done (all that's left to do is to mount the wheels, gearboxes, and chains). We also have an idea of what we want to do, although we haven't actually finalized design yet. This week I hope to finalize the design, gather any necessary building materials, and get some building underway. Also, I want to get some field elements built, such as a trailer and the vision target.

I think we're off to a very good start, though.

Re: Team Status
 

this is my first yr on our team, but it seems to me that we are doing well...we have a prototype canon (which was really exciting!!), a practice chassis, and a start on programming and electrical (well...i'm not really sure what but i know they've been hard at work ;) )

Re: Team Status
 

We've got a trailer almost done, need to get more wheels!

A lot of ideas, and our team leaders/mentors have gone through them all.

We've got the drive train decided on, though I'm having second thoughts because of the trailer hitch rule.

The scoring mechanism is still under a lot of debate. After trying to throw the balls into the trailer ourselves, and finding how easily they bounce out, we're thinking a shooter may be somewhat impractical. A sort of dumper design would seem more likely to work. But it relys heavily on pinning another robot.

We need to reconfigure the kitbots to our drive train design. And our programmers need to finish their benchtests and get the stuff mounted to our kitbot.

Basically, we have a lot of work to do.