Ice in North Texas

[mathking]

When it is only going to be a day or two (it looks like here in central Ohio the worst of this storm is going to slide by, so we should be back at it by Thursday) we try to keep the team thinking about unsolved or partially solved problems. For example right now that is how to tension the drive chains. The programmers can always work on code too, for us that means figuring out why the delay in the otherwise very nice line following code turns off the motors. A warning about programming on your own during a break like this: Make SURE the programmers keep the last working version of the code intact. We have them push their code to the repo, then any of the programmers can get it and work on it without messing up what works in the current version.

When it will be longer, we have at times had kids take the robot home to work on it. That has only happened twice. Both times we lost two complete weekends of work time and were really up against it.