Andy, your bot sounds like a beast. I look forward to seeing it in a month and a week.
As our mentor put it, I'm "breathing, eating, and sleeping this stuff." Quite frankly, I'm darn near obsessed. I'm living for FIRST at this point.
The team is about half kids that work sometimes and kids that work all the time, with a few kids that don't work at all. It's been kind of hard to recruit kids who'll work all the time, and building has been slightly slow, but we're getting close. Funding is a problem, and I think we're running on a negative budget right now.
However, it's all VERY fun stuff, and it's been quite an experience.
Currently, our drivetrain is very near running, though I'm doubtful about our arms. Hopefully we'll be testing by the end of this week, and if not, by Saturday night.
I guess for a team of complete rookies and a team captain with one year's experience, we aren't doing too bad.
Looking forward to the Peachtree Regional (GA).