[Mike Hendricks]

Alright. I'm gunna eat my words and beat myself for that post I made this morning before I went to our meeting.

We smoked a FP today .. we couldnt even put a tetra up before it smoked. So, we devise a ratchet system and fab it. Started at 11am, finished about 8:30pm. Programming started, and took a few hours to get the servo ratchet lock programmed (and tested) in sync with the arm. Then, we couldnt get the lower boom to stay stable (with feedback from the pots), so weeks of planing, waiting for parts and machining have been wasted. On a lighter note, we just dropped about 10lbs by taking that transmission off. So the arm works now. Kinda. We drove it around, capped some tetras, and called it good.

Auton time. Someone .. managed to plug the RS232 converter board in backwards, which, will fry the chip. Even if IFI overnighted it, it wouldnt get here till tuesday, which is when fedex picks up the bot.

I guess you could say we fixed it, but we scrapped alot of work .. which translates into wasted time during the build season .. time we could of spent testing and programming. I tip my hat to all the teams that manage to have their bot at a build season scrimage .. I dont know how you guys do it. Good luck to everyone ..