We're actually quite busy. Since my school is a rookie team, we're building a robot using last year's rules. We figure that it will give the students good experience as to what January is like (as well as give them experience actually building a robot) and give them experience driving the robot. Plus, it helps since they've never actually seen a robot yet. We bought the controller and such, but we have a machine shop and welder for free...and we have a lot of materials (like lexan and some aluminum)for free so that definitely keeps the cost down. We're actually starting to mill the parts out this week, at least the students are...the machine shop lets the students do it. And of course. we're fundraising.
~Christina