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Unread 11-02-2003, 19:19
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Question Qotw [02-11-03]: one week left until shipping...

Hi all. With exactly one week left until everyone ship their robot, I am sure the stress level is at its peak. I know you can't see it now (either because you can't keep your eyes open or your brain hurts), but it is worth all the lack of sleep and missing homework and not seeing family. This is the worst week to get sick in, so try not to.



Questions 02/11/03:

What's the status on your robot?
What do you plan to do with the last week in build period?
How do you motivate students to push on for one more week through all nighters and long work sections until they finish the robot?
How do you plan to keep your members from burning out/getting sick?
Are you planning to go to a pre-shipping competition/event? If so where?


Good luck! I can't wait to see everyon'e robot in the robot showcase forum!

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Re: Qotw [02-11-03]: one week left until shipping...

Status: Driving...
Last Week Activities: Building, hopefully testing, software debugging....
Motivation: Big mothers pizza, the hopes of a good bot, our patron saint. St. Caffeine....
Members Burning Out: Well... I burnt out after not missing a meeting for over a month, had to call today and tomorrow of for me, going back thursday refreshed and ready to work.
Pre-shipping: Nope, just testing =)


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What's the status on your robot?
Coming along. Drivable but the other stuff still needs to be mounted
What do you plan to do with the last week in build period?
FINISH THE ROBOT!! PRACTICE!!! DEBUG!
How do you motivate students to push on for one more week
through all nighters and long work sections until they finish the robot?
Pep talks. Mt DEW (I just got back from the store to purchase another 24pack). Free Food. Promise of a better tomorrow.
How do you plan to keep your members from burning out/getting sick?
Mt Dew. Sleep during class. Loud voices when needed. Humor. Mt Dew.
Are you planning to go to a pre-shipping competition/event? If so where?
Erm i dont think so
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Our robot should be completed with 5 days of testing to spare

We are going to a pre-competition scrimmage on the 15th in Corvallis, OR
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As of now we have a moving frame that rocks! and the transmissions are amazing!!! Yet we still do not have an arm that is operational, the programing and the wiring are all still up in the air. So within these last 7 days we are going to need to get a lot done. We are going to be starting the all nighters on Friday.....ahhhhh Lots of Coffee is going to be a key factor in getting this bot done. We already had a little pushing match with another FIRST team that we are working with and well...we send their bot going in the other direction.... These next 7 days are going to be interesting!
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status: running and almost completed
what to do with the last week: practice
how to push students: us students volenteer
how to keep members from burning out: loud noises
pre-ship: we are hoding a pre-ship event on saturday the 15th at harding high school at 10:00


although we are close to ship date we are not panicking for some reason, i think it's just because how much could go wrong hasn't sunk in yet.
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Unread 11-02-2003, 23:02
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We are just eating pretzels out of the big jar of them in our work room for the most part. Subsystem 1 is done.

It drove on the first attempt last Saturday morning.
Sunday we had off.
We took it to BCR 294 yesterday and didn't break a thing.
Spent this evening making some adjustments to loosen a chain.
We are doing final electrical tomorrow and assembling and mounting subsystem 2 tomorrow.
Then we will be done. If all goes as planned tomorrow, we will have Thursday off.
Friday is back down to BCR 294 for more testing.
Satudray adjusting and programming, making shell, and preparing strategy for SCRRF scrimmage.
Sunday is the SCRRF Scrimage.
Monday fixing from battle damage at SCRRF
Tuesday preparing to ship and shipping. (And then of course flooding Chief Delphi. Most on ever on Feb 18 this year. Make it happen!)

Well, that's our schedule. Not bad at all as long as those pretzels stay in supply.
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Well, here are my answers:

What's the status on your robot?

We've got everything planned out, our prototype is almost finished, and GM is welding our final pieces right now. We hope to have our transmissions installed today, and get our other mechanisms finished or near-finished.

What do you plan to do with the last week in build period?

We plan to finish our robot Once we do that, we practice and party...

How do you motivate students to push on for one more week through all nighters and long work sections until they finish the robot?

We've got enough motivated students in our core group, we don't need to do anything. They show up on their own.

How do you plan to keep your members from burning out/getting sick?

Hmmm.. . that's a good one.... we need to work on that.

Are you planning to go to a pre-shipping competition/event? If so where?

Nope. I don't know of any in our area, but even if there was one I knew of, we wouldn't be ready. We'll be programming non-stop this weekend.
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Re: Qotw [02-11-03]: one week left until shipping...

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Hi all. With exactly one week left until everyone ship their robot, I am sure the stress level is at its peak. I know you can't see it now (either because you can't keep your eyes open or your brain hurts), but it is worth all the lack of sleep and missing homework and not seeing family. This is the worst week to get sick in, so try not to.



Questions 02/11/03:

What's the status on your robot?
What do you plan to do with the last week in build period?
How do you motivate students to push on for one more week through all nighters and long work sections until they finish the robot?
How do you plan to keep your members from burning out/getting sick?
Are you planning to go to a pre-shipping competition/event? If so where?


Good luck! I can't wait to see everyon'e robot in the robot showcase forum!

-Ken Leung
Well again, I can't truly answer this one, but I think we all know the definitive answer to the second question: Mountain Dew and bean-bag chairs.
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Unread 12-02-2003, 19:06
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What's the status on your robot?
So close to being done...so close.

What do you plan to do with the last week in build period?
Finish up and clean up the wiring!

How do you motivate students to push on for one more week through all nighters and long work sections until they finish the robot?
Free food and an easy going environment

How do you plan to keep your members from burning out/getting sick?
Just be cool and don't freak out

Are you planning to go to a pre-shipping competition/event? If so where?
We have a one match "media day" this thursday...

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Our robot is moving, most subassemblies are completed and we are programming.

In the next few days, we are going to finish (obviously), go to Chatsworth scrimmage, and shift. We need to get a human player (we have a group of 2 that can stack 8 in 8.5 seconds). Also, on Friday we are hosting several teams.

No all nighters yet, we've pushed hard from the beginning.

I am sick. Ahhhh

As said above, we are going to Chatworth on Sunday.





BTW 696, We might try to bring pretzels :-)
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BTW 696, We might try to bring pretzels :-)
Oooh Yummy! Even better with an ample coating of white lithium.

Well, today went a little slower than expected. We did get a lot done though. Everything should be done by the end of tomorrow except maybe for a shell/shields and programming.

Who all is going to BCR on Friday?

Also, do you have a fairly accurate scale BCR?
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Yeah, except for the bar on the side, and the fact that we don't have many boxes.
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Yeah, except for the bar on the side, and the fact that we don't have many boxes.
I meant a weight scale, were you talking about the field? I already saw the field and it is nice.
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We don't know yet. We should be done later today. We would weigh everything individually but our scale is broken.

I was talking about the ramp, sorry.
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