Overall I think were on Schduel.
Where we stand.
-The chassis prototyping has been complete, and electronics have been strapped on to make a it have full driving capabilities. (a desc ion should be made within the next few days)
- A lot of Great arm prototyping has been done, sevral designs have been made to some degree to another, and I see there being some testing in the near future.
- The mini-bot crew has been fast at work getting everything together, and there protypeing (in VEX parts) has been quite well. I expect to see some expirmental programming taking place soon.
- A scoring Grid, feeder Slot, and mini bot pole have all been build buy the Field Construction Crew and look great!
- Minibot Deployment system has been prototyped with motor and looks great.
- Programming has been fooling around with the FMS light to see if it will be compatible with non-classmates for pre-season events.
- Programming has also been programming all of these contraptions.
Over all I'd say were on track. The fact that prgramming ran out of stuff to do mid-day tells me that our department has been on the ball and is a-head of schduel.
The only problem is we don't have a strategy sorta!

This is a problem. The reason for this is that in our strategy meetings, a good amount of students want to build a completely "defensive robot, with minor offensive abilities "(FirstTunes Ep. 5). All the mentors, Alumni, and some students believe this is not a smart way to go (I included). We believe that any robot can play defense, and we need to think offensively at least until the robot it done. However since Student wise, we're currently in the Minority for offense, we were able to work with the mentors to use a stalling tactic, and get a jack of all trades bot through everyone. By doing this, it basically allows us to build an offensive robot, without upsetting those in favor of Defense. Is it risky? Yes, but if it plays out right, it will be benifical to the team.
Overall the season has been going well, I and the other programmer have been getting along great so far, and I can't wait to see what the future brings.