Glad to hear of the great progress! And to the rookie teams out there, if you need anything, 393 will help you as much as we possibly can!
~as for our progress~
We have decided on a chassis design and will be gathering materials tomorrow with hopes of beginning construction Monday. Our arm (forklift) is in the design stages as of now, but tomorrow should see some serious progress and we should be starting construction mid-next week.
Wiring and Programming have been hard at work, the wiring guys are setting up the circuit board and the programming guys tell me we'll be able to start driver selection as soon as we have a chassis and satisfactory drivetrain.
This is the best starting season we've had since I joined. I hope that this pace keeps up. If it does, we'll really be able to get things tuned before the first competition, which would be a first for us. (I know this hope is almost completely futile, but if I don't hope for it it definitely won't happen
)