[Madison]

Our prototype chassis should be completed tonight and I hope to finish milling the competition-legal chassis parts by tomorrow night. I'm a bit behind because a dumb error on my part shorted out the CNC machine and it took some time for our electrically inclined people to track down the three fried voltage rectifiers and replace them.

The manipulator design is about 75% complete, I'd say, disregarding the less-important shooting mechanism. The easiest parts are finished -- namely the superstructure -- and it's awaiting motor mounts, belting, pulleys, chain and sprockets. We will likely need to redesign our hopper as well so as to better mate it to this new manipulator.

I flip-flop back and forth between thinking that we're on or ahead of schedule and chastizing myself for working so slowly on finalizing a design.