How Far is Everyone?

[voltage5]

Hey guys, I know it's always hard to figure out how much progress you team is making compared to other teams. I just wanted to know how far everyone is in the build period. Thanks.

[Eagleeyedan]

We are a bit behind but are catching up. The animation is ahead though. Going to finish that tomorrow!

[voltage5]

Cool, I think our team is a little behind too. More specifically, what have you accomplished?

[Eagleeyedan]

Originally Posted by voltage5

Cool, I think our team is a little behind too. More specifically, what have you accomplished?

Drive train, manipulator, website, controls, some programming an most of the lift/arm. Oh, i almost forgot, the animation is going to be done tomorrow.

I did forget to mention minibot. It is being refined now and we are working on deployment.

[voltage5]

Awesome, we have drive train, working manipulator, almost working lift , some controls and programming. No animation though, we've been lacking that in the past few years.

[Eagleeyedan]

Originally Posted by voltage5

Awesome, we have drive train, working manipulator, almost working lift , some controls and programming. No animation though, we've been lacking that in the past few years.

What! That's the best part! I love animation. Although, I have done some lift, controls, drive train, electrical, and last year, kicker. This year, we had to start over with our lift just last week. Almost got the new design done now though.

[Grim Tuesday]

We're running a Sunday this week to catch up due to snowdays. Our goal is to have the entire robot done, driving, and elevator working. Will we achieve it? I hope.

As of right now, our:

Drive train, frame, minibot deployment, and electronics board are on the robot. On our elevator system, we have the main assembly done, with the grabber still waiting on machining.

[Eagleeyedan]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

We're running a Sunday this week to catch up due to snowdays. Our goal is to have the entire robot done, driving, and elevator working. Will we achieve it? I hope.

As of right now, our:

Drive train, frame, minibot deployment, and electronics board are on the robot. On our elevator system, we have the main assembly done, with the grabber still waiting on machining.

We are meeting every day now. The snow affected us too. We missed 2 meetings because of it.

[voltage5]

Sounds good. I forgot to mention our minibot, (or lack thereof ). We have a rudimentary minibot but haven't made a deployment mechanism yet.

[Brandon_L]

Drove for the first time yesterday, nothing else works yet.

[apalrd]

How far are we?

On build day 33, we scored a tube under pure robot power (the fact that it was day 33 was pure coincidence). We then scored again and again and again.

We are now ready to tune the constants. I expect that by Monday we will have it driving under at least partially automated control, although for us partially automated means full P/PD/PID and basic state machines (fully automated control includes more advanced state machines, action sequences, and more).

[MrForbes]

hanging tubes on the middle and lower pegs, the redesigned (or is that the designed) arm support is getting built so we'll be able to do the top one too.

video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtFRLpqai0c

[pfreivald]

We are not as far along as we'd like to be, but farther than we feared we'd be.

[rcmolloy]

I would say pretty good so far. We have most of our autonomous done, our manipulator mechanism should be done tomorrow for testing and driving. Been driving for a week now and getting good amounts of practice. Everything else should come together by about Monday or Tuesday.

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by voltage5

I just wanted to know how far everyone is in the build period.

I'm pretty sure we're at the exact same point everyone else is: Day 35 of 45.