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Originally Posted by Kims Robot
HA.... HA....HA..... IKEEELYOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Congratulations Kim! Nice color scheme and... I know how you feel.
Our team made 22 last weekend (4 hours on Saturday, 4 on Sunday, 2 mentors and about 6 students) and we were cross-eyed by the end. We used gray gaffers tape, the same as on the trailers, to close the fabric seams and its holding up very well. That should speed things up a little for you.
We also set up a production line to speed things up. Three first three rings are easy; link ring 1 to ring 2, then link ring 3 through the first two together. We also took an Orbit Ball and numbered each ring at every intersection with another ring. This gave us an easy way to check our weaving. We had 1 student gluing batting, 1 mentor sewing fabric, 1 student installing the fabric, 1 student assembling the first three rings, and the remainder of us were the best at weaving the remainder of the ball.
To motivate us we set up two trailers and every time someone finished a ball they had to shoot it into a trailer. Seeing the trailers fill up kept us moving. We also adopted a rule, if you missed the trailer you had to make another ball and try again, if you scored you could take a break.
There weren't many misses that weekend!
Team 228 is truly humbled by the positive feedback from everyone and happy to have helped the FIRST community with this project.