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Re: The end of week 3
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Originally Posted by CalTran
our team is usually good, and we're going to get a decent 'bot out there at KC, but at the same time, I wish that the team would strive to compete up there alongside Bomb Squad and Team Titanium and Winnovation.
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2410 is always on our preseason watch list of excellent teams in the KC area. 
While I'd love to say we designed it in the first 3 days and have been moving towards the polished product ever since... We've had our set backs with rule reinterpretations, misalligned parts, enginneering break throughs that require major redesigns, and inoportune illnesses from key members. One subsystems hasn't made it to CAD yet, and a second one is still looking for the right design concept. These things are not totally unexpected, so no panic just the constant pressure to fail faster. We'll be fine.  
The drive base is built, finished wiring it last night, and should be driving it around today after school. Parts are mostly in house for the ball intake and delivery system. Prototypes all appear to function within our design perameters.
Software team found last year's robot to have a lot of similar functionality to this year's requirements and have turned it into a test bed for working out the kinks in code. We'll see how it translates to the smaller (faster) CRIO.
We're on schedule, but we wanted to be ahead, so it feels like we are behind.
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