Heres a good one: in 2003, my senior year in highschool, our team was extrememly limited on things that we could use to make our robot. that, mixed in with a few other unforseeable obstacles, led us to only have 1 and a half of our tank treads done.. no chasis, no electronics, no appendage or anything else. The last week we were blessed with a machine shop and unlimited time in it. needless to say the final build week myself and a few others spent about 110 hours in the shop
. we went directly from school to the machine shop, left at about 3 or 4 in the morning, got about 2 hours of sleep and then repeated the cycle. we got it all done, even with about 4 hours to practice driving.