[mtaman02]

The NYC Regionals @ Columbia Univ.

The FL Nationals @ WDW

Thank You to Teams 348, 41 - NYC Alliance and Teams 84, 175 - FL Alliance for choosing us Team 522 as your partner in trying to go for the gold!

There was also the PA Robot Challenge Thank You Teams 61 and don't hate me for this but i really don't remember our other alliance partner off hand but who ever you are thanks!


This years robot had a couple of failures but it mainly cicrulated around the drive train. Poor design was the cause and we will build a better robot next year. as for last years "WILMA" is still alive and kicking and continues to maintain a 0 mechanical failure record in 2 years; year 1 competition year 2 ambassadorial services. "DOROTHY" is this years and has had at least 2 drill / tranny problems. one at the regionals where we had sheered a roll pin then later that day blew tranny and motor luckily it was on a practice day and us students Matt C. and Joe C. stayed a little bit later with Team 694 Stuypulse and repaired the damage before competition day. same problem occured in the nationals.... but we didnt sheer a roll pin we just got hit from the wrong direction and something in the tranny snapped. at the PA Robot challenge we sheered a roll pin.

WILMA - Now rests temporarily at the Queens museum of science - 0 mechanical failures
Dorothy - sits in our robotics room with that sheered roll pin from May - at least 3 mechaincal failures. we know now not to build a drive train that similar to this years drive train. To many chains, gears, ratios and problems. difficult to maintain when you got only 5 minutes between matches. hehe maybe we can get a nice break during comp day to repair our robot. maybe like an extra 15 minutes for lunch. eat then repair.


mike


WILMA will always live on. She just keeps goin and goin and goin and goin. etc....


[quote]90% of the work is done by 10% of the team