[Squillo]

You asked, "when DO you make..." so that's what I answered. If you'd asked "When would you LIKE to make..." the answer would be different! Or even "When did you PLAN to make...".

We would love to build our practice bot in parallel with the comp bot, or even before. Sadly, we barely had time to get one good bot done by B&T. The practice bot had been started (chassis and drive train), and we had a "drive mule" (just chassis and drive train, for new drivers to practice basics) all season, but we have just ironed all the kinks out of our practice bot and our drivers (and programmers) are now working with it for the next 1.5 weeks.

We did make a few improvements, which are part of the 30 lbs. that we will take to competition and sub for parts on the bot that we shipped (a different chute-mounting mechanism, for example). But it's basically just a duplicate. We just didn't have the person-power or time to get the practice bot done on schedule.

Still, every year we get closer to our goals.