Have not started building

[Raddude]

Have any other teams not started building yet? We are planning to start on monday, but I want to know if this happened to anyone else

[Akash Rastogi]

Building what exactly? Prototypes/practice bot/final bot?

Do you have CAD relatively put together?

[Raddude]

The CAD is almost done but we barely have a prototype and nothing towards the final bot

[NinjaMunkeeNao]

I wouldn't worry. It's still somewhat early to have already started building the actual Robot instead of the prototype. (In my opinion, that is. I'm a Rookie on the team so I'm only going with my gut here, lol).

[hardcopi]

I was just about to ask the same thing. We have our Cad 99% done and our frame is going to the powder coating (a first for us this year), but other than getting the gears, motors, motor controllers, etc... we have almost nothing. Hoping to start putting together all the parts this coming week.

[MetaEngineer]

Don't worry about it. Assuming you have good design and decently precise fabrication of parts, assembling the bot does not take very long.

As a word of advice, make sure you have the CAD and a person who worked on the CAD present when assembling. Depending on your design, things may get confusing without the 3D render and people familiar with it.

[Trevor1523]

Practice bot is coming along nicely. CAD is 100% done.

Competition robot parts have started to be machined/fabricated, yet no real assembly has taken place on it.

[NinjaMunkeeNao]

Originally Posted by Trevor1523

Practice bot is coming along nicely. CAD is 100% done.

Competition robot parts have started to be machined/fabricated, yet no real assembly has taken place on it.

Good job guys!

[IronicDeadBird]

What people seem to forget is that just because you have a schedule doesn't make the schedule good. Take time at the end of the season and ask if your schedule actually made sense. I noticed on our schedule our strategy was supposed to be done BEFORE Q&A which I found a little bit sketchy.

"SIR WE HAVEN'T FINISHED BUILDING ROME."
"Calm down dude it has only been a day..."

[orangemoore]

We are in a similar boat. We have barely built anything and our robot is still mostly in the computer. We plan to send out our custom parts between now and Wednesday at the latest. We also have several large VEX/McMaster/Other orders that will also be going out shortly.

[jlee0119]

Originally Posted by orangemoore

We are in a similar boat. We have barely built anything and our robot is still mostly in the computer. We plan to send out our custom parts between now and Wednesday at the latest. We also have several large VEX/McMaster/Other orders that will also be going out shortly.

We ordered our metal from Onlinemetals.com. it was a lot cheaper then mcmastercarr for basic aluminum stock.

[BBaltrusch]

Hopefully you're either building a KoP or waiting on CAD parts. Time flows like a river. We're planning on building from CAD in the next few days.

[Type]

We have 99% of the CAD done also, we are just figuring out if everything is going to work like mechanically. We have a prototyped shooter that when is set up properly can constantly keep hitting shots in the high school at 13 feet away (about farthest back we think we can be). We are waiting for Rhino Tracks to ship to start building the chassis. We are hoping to get some aluminum cut so we can get a chance to get it welded. We organized all of the parts we have and the main problem we are going to run into is where to put everything. We have a total of 11 motors so we will need to position all of those motor controllers somewhere. But I don't think you should worry about not having a final robot started on, as long as you have been designing and prototyping.

[bEdhEd]

If your plan is good, i.e your CAD is on point, any prototypes have worked satisfactorily, you have a schedule laid out for build objectives, then you should be able to put together a robot and finish it with enough time to practice.

It's just a matter of making sure everyone's doing their appointed job and meeting deadlines.

[Sperkowsky]

Our team didn't finish the robot 2013 - 2015. So this year to prevent that we decided to pretty much scrap all prototyping focusing on what people posted on CD and Ri3D. And go right for the comp bot. We should be done with 80% of it today. (still waiting on our waterjet sponsors parts). The next 20% will be done latest by Friday. But it is not really up to us. This allows us to get quite a bit of practice before our week 0 event and after that we will have a ton of practice going into our week 2 event.