Who else is really, really behind?

[reflion]

Eep.
We still haven't finished our manipulator. At least we have a working base?

[popo308]

we just found a drive train prob today trying to fix it bright and early in the morning!

[RoboGeek99]

Well i think we barely made it through the cut. We were able to finish making the arm yesterday and spent the rest of the day trying to program but of course "The Accursed Panther" (we named it that because of all the problems it gave us) was not gonna let us finish that easily.hopefully it will be operational monday.

[octothorpe]

You have a working base and you call that really, really behind? We just installed our wheels yesterday, and nothing else is attached to the frame. We haven't even started our manipulator. Any debugging and fixing for our team takes place during the last half of the last weekend... and at the regionals.

[=Martin=Taylor=]

We thought we were finished a week ago.... Then we found problems....

I think we'll make it, but it might be close. We're about where we were last year and we pulled through then.

[dtengineering]

Well, this year we are doing okay... (we can drive and launch, but still have all the auto left to go) but last year we figured out how to measure the position of our elevator (a rather important function) about 30 minutes before the robot went into the shipping crate. We had zero practice time and no time to test auto functions on the robot. It showed when we got to Portland, although by the end of the season we were starting to get things figured out.

Jason

[AdamC]

we've got a working base and what appears to be part of a catapult of some sort. Today was spent doing as much work as possible to get everything ready for the last week. We hope to be testing by Wednesday...but I don't have much hope for that.

[dlavery]

We are at least two and a half weeks behind where we should be. For us, that means that we are right on schedule.



-dave



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[dpc131]

This year, we were behind more than usual since we were waiting on parts that were ordered and manufacturing. We spent that downtime continuing to prototype and refine our design drawings/calculations (lots of force=lots of design) Got our parts in...and everything got mounted in 1.5 days. We're up and running now, back on track.

[Grogs]

yep...way behind...ran out of parts and our school gives us a hard time about ordering more

[Maggie27]

We're just a bit behind.
Having some strains on the pneumatics. Ughh!!
This is the stressful week.

[octothorpe]

Originally Posted by octothorpe

We just installed our wheels yesterday, and nothing else is attached to the frame.

Ignoring the oddity in quoting myself, we are now even further behind than we were yesterday, since after discovering a problem with the chain we took all six wheels back off the robot. Currently our (assembled) 2008 bot consists of an aluminum skeleton, six bolts with nuts, four bearings, four L-brackets, and a whole lot of painfully empty space.

[Blue_Mist]

Originally Posted by octothorpe

Ignoring the oddity in quoting myself, we are now even further behind than we were yesterday, since after discovering a problem with the chain we took all six wheels back off the robot. Currently our (assembled) 2008 bot consists of an aluminum skeleton, six bolts with nuts, four bearings, four L-brackets, and a whole lot of painfully empty space.

Well, it does resemble more of a robot costume than an actual robot. But our electronics are designed, the programming is planned, bumpers are close to completion, drive team picked out (RoboCoach?), the OI is halfway built, and all the Solidworks models are finally finished. We may not have a robot yet, but we have Robot Potential!

[octothorpe]

Originally Posted by Blue_Mist

Well, it does resemble more of a robot costume than an actual robot....We may not have a robot yet, but we have Robot Potential!

Robot costume? Maybe if we had some polycarb armor or actual decoration on it. Right now there's not enough actual substance to disguise anyone of the fact that what they're looking at is empty frame.

Forget Robot Potential, it's more like Empty-Crate-on-Ship-Day Potential!

[Blue_Mist]

We've had Empty-Crate-on-Ship-Day Potential every year, except for Scott Baron's year (awesome mentor who managed to get the robot finished Week 5- we've never been able to replicate the feat). Anyone else surpass 766's level of unfinishedness? All of the pictures and videos heap on both inspiration and despair in equal measure, so with both types of incentive we should pick up momentum. And the polycarb for electronics board is cut, so that can be put on soon with electronics, I hope...