We had a rough weekend...
Thanks 571, 228, and whichever other teams helped us with our programming bugs. We lost robot power for a long time on Thursday due to some mysterious issue, which was eventually traced back to not updating the Driver Station before the regional.
Thanks to 177 for their 1/2" hex broach. That's a pretty expensive toy to lend out
but we managed to get it back to them in one piece.
With the newly broached parts, we had new drivetrain belts ready to go, thinking our one-belt system had issues with slipping, but that turned out not to be the problem at all. In our second match, we suddenly lost our entire drivetrain. Andy Grady said something about "very loud grinding noises coming from Shaker Robotics's robot!". We brought it to the pits and found our aluminium driveshaft had actually turned itself from 1/2 hex to 1/2 round. We spent the next 3 matches getting steel shafts machined and installed on the robot. Thanks for all the help - I forget who donated the steel...
Between that and some other programming glitches and me accidentally ruining our replacement parts (whoops), we didn't do what we came to and missed eliminations. We left our A game at home. But in the car ride back, every single team member had a new appreciation for the work we needed to do - and the drive to do it better next time.
So, uh, we'll be doing better at Connecticut. We're pumped. I'm proud of the tubes we put up when we did run, especially given little practice before those matches.