[ZZII 527]

-Give us a little summary of your build season.
A few days of design debate led to the decision to dedicate the most effort to a step-climbing lifter. Original concept of skidplates failed, resorted to pneumatic pistons for climbing step (actually works out nicely). We just finished this weekend and have been tweaking, drilling, and cutting this week.

-Problems you ran into during build season.
Skid plate climber didn't work. Solution: Pneumatics

Couldn't turn for a while. Solution: we had the same problem last year, casters seem to do the job nicely

Autonomous. Solution: uhh..."adaptive strategy"

-What does your robot due?
-can follow line, somewhat
-can grab mobile goal and possibly even pull it
-can push balls, or pretend to
-can uncap, assuming ideal conditions
-can climb step (actually, very well)
-can lift and hang (also, surprisingly, very well)

-cannot cap goals
-cannot track IR

-Is your robot fully functioning, or will work be done at regionals
-fully functional with the semi-exception of autonomous...some work still needs to be done there, or we can just wing it

-Did you meet weight requirements
-129.3 lbs as of today

Excellent build season...we are a third year team and this is by far the most complex bot we've built.