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Originally Posted by Donut
We've already been informed by our mechanical group today that with how things are going building wise, we'll have ~3 days to actually test code. No finished robots anytime soon at our school.
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3 days? That's 72 hours of pure testing! Luxury!
Two years ago, our team didn't finish our bot until the last hour of pit day (that's not really legal anymore), and we spent entirely too much time creatively shedding weight in the pits. So, as you might imagine, the code wasn't, err, optimal. Last year we had plenty of time with the kitbot, but the final bot wasn't really ready until ship day (with some substantial changes), so it was again a lot of pit engineering getting the code up to snuff.
That said, our team this year seems to be in good shape, especially with respect to the building, and the software is coming along nicely with incremental features added. This year's bot will never be "done", it will just keep getting better and better.