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550's Six Weeks
Well, this year we're attempting to step off in the right direction by watching the kickoff (somewhere), and making a tape of it for review. Around that time, we'll map Inventor, pBasic writer, and our new simulator (if done) to a network drive. If we manage to finish the simulator, which is basically a funky Inventor manipulator mixed with a Robot Interface emulator, we'll try to send every team a copy. How nice of us.
Week 1 will consist of mainly brainstorming and basic systems design interpretation.
Week 2 will be basic systems building and complex systems design.
Week 3 will be complex systems design finalization time and Inventor model drawing time.
Week 4 will be design completion and the begining of building more complex systems. By this time we hope to have a running testbed. We'll also be writing our pBasic code that week.
Week 5 will be full robot completion time. We'll paint it, affix logos, and test it to get all the gremlins out.
Week 6 is packing time! We'll build spare assemblies and pack up the bot.
After week 6, we'll be attempting to do whatever we still need to do: making uniforms, recruiting cheerleaders, and that other all important thing, rallying.
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