Week 6 and still not finished!

[Phil Paspalas]

WARNING: This is a head coach venting!

It's Sunday at the beginning of week 6, 11am. 14" of the white stuff is on the ground and still falling! 2nd year in FIRST and the robot still isn't finshed. Chassis, done! Electrical panels mocked up but not fabricated in polycarbonate yet. Shooter, done. Tilt and swivel assembly for shooter about 65% done. Ball collector/conveyor, about 50%. Ball hopper, less than that. Crate, not built yet! Like last year, we have a great design, but because we try to stick with the philosophy "student designed, student built", things just take a long time. Programming, 85% done. We are submitting an Inventor design for the 1st time along with a 3ds Max animation. Animation, done; Inventor submission, not yet. Website, done and being updated daily! Chaimans award submission, in progress; Woodie Flowers Award, the same. We are doing outreach to a team in a local urban area. 2 of 3 engineer/mentors are currently out of the country. 2 of our teacher/advisors are inactive because of work/family obligations. I guess we bit off more than we could chew, again! We'll get it all done, but...I just wish we could figure this out.

Phil Paspalas
Head Coach - Team 1676
The Pascack Pioneers
2005 NJ Rookie All-Stars
Runner-up: Montclair Mayhem
Champions: Ramp Riot (Thanks 25!)

[sanddrag]

You are much further along that we are.

[Tim Arnold]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

You are much further along that we are.

Ditto...

[Nuttyman54]

same here... we just drove for the first time yesterday, and we found a few problems

[Jeff K.]

Ya..I gott admit same here.. We have quite a bit to do this week.

[akshar]

well 1568, is almost done but big problems lie ahead...we have about a week left and:
the shooter is done but not mounted, yesterday we finished the ball pick up mechanism and mounted it...works with a 99.9 % accuaracy by the way, we still need to mount and build a hopper..
Just for kicks:
the bot..Regit 2 weighs 101 lbs, without the battery,

but, this is one of the things FIRST is about...teamwork and countless manhourrs to build a highly effective bot...good luck to all the teams out there still building away

Originally Posted by Phil Paspalas

WARNING: This is a head coach venting!

It's Sunday at the beginning of week 6, 11am. 14" of the white stuff is on the ground and still falling! 2nd year in FIRST and the robot still isn't finshed. Chassis, done! Electrical panels mocked up but not fabricated in polycarbonate yet. Shooter, done. Tilt and swivel assembly for shooter about 65% done. Ball collector/conveyor, about 50%. Ball hopper, less than that. Crate, not built yet! Like last year, we have a great design, but because we try to stick with the philosophy "student designed, student built", things just take a long time. Programming, 85% done. We are submitting an Inventor design for the 1st time along with a 3ds Max animation. Animation, done; Inventor submission, not yet. Website, done and being updated daily! Chaimans award submission, in progress; Woodie Flowers Award, the same. We are doing outreach to a team in a local urban area. 2 of 3 engineer/mentors are currently out of the country. 2 of our teacher/advisors are inactive because of work/family obligations. I guess we bit off more than we could chew, again! We'll get it all done, but...I just wish we could figure this out.

Phil Paspalas
Head Coach - Team 1676
The Pascack Pioneers
2005 NJ Rookie All-Stars
Runner-up: Montclair Mayhem
Champions: Ramp Riot (Thanks 25!)

Hey at least u guys HAVE students..

I'm practically the only student building along with 2 mentors, the rest...

plays dodgeball

[Freddy Schurr]

Yeah, well Team 204 has some more work to do, we are the entirely finish but like 65% done. We are still working on some stuff and finishing trying to get more sponsors for us to attend the Championship.

[Sgraff_SRHS06]

Originally Posted by Freddy204

Yeah, well Team 204 has some more work to do, we are the entirely finish but like 65% done. We are still working on some stuff and finishing trying to get more sponsors for us to attend the Championship.

Ditto. Same with us. Even though we have the promise of our local school board to pay the expenses if we get in the hard way.

EDIT: We have been able to drive the robot for about 2 weeks or so. Our mechanism is about 90% complete and our only lag time now is in controls and programming, where we still have to fix our stuff for our geartooth counters and our gyros. We also still have to mount our camera. Which we should be able to do this week. As I keep reinforcing, we will be ready for our scrimmage at the National Building Museum on Saturday.

[sanddrag]

With reference to the real robot (not prototypes), we have our frame machined and welded. The machining for everything is probably 2/3-5/7 complete. The conveyor has not been started. No assemby has taken place. However, we have been programming non-stop since the start of week 2.

[hayakuneko]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

With reference to the real robot (not prototypes), we have our frame machined and welded. The machining for everything is probably 2/3-5/7 complete. The conveyor has not been started. No assemby has taken place. However, we have been programming non-stop since the start of week 2.

to add to that... we also have a flag-pole holder!

[imax48236]

Originally Posted by Cpt_Dave_Lister

Hey at least u guys HAVE students..

I'm practically the only student building along with 2 mentors, the rest...

plays dodgeball

We have a few guys like that on our team. It's either dodgeball or Star-Wars fansites.

[Nimmy]

atleast you guys have mentors, we only have 2 teachers and only one of them is present at any given time...

[Erin Rapacki]

Yup... what robot?

[Pontchartrain]

Originally Posted by imax48236

We have a few guys like that on our team. It's either dodgeball or Star-Wars fansites.

I wanna smack the freshmen. I really do. Especially our Star Wars loving friend. When they're not goofing off, they screwing up. And there's too many of them.

If 1701's freshmen are the future, it's going to be a sad, sad future.