What every mentor is thinking right now is...

[lovelj]

Originally Posted by Kevin Ray

At the end of the first full day hard practice, we had 15 nuts and screws on the carpet...Now to find where they came from... We might just dip the entire bot in a Locktite bath before bagging.

LOL!! I've got a buddy mentoring a team with an 80/20 frame. I'll pass on that advice. We thought of wrapping our robot in those big summo balloons and just bounce our way thru a competition.

[Richard Wallace]

What component will we break next?

[logank013]

Last year, we saw how playing so many matches in the new IN district affected our robot in wear and tear. Now that we have a real Alliance vs. Alliance game with some rough defenses, I'm curious to see how District bots compare to Regional bots at Worlds. All I can say is if your robot doesn't break something at a competition, you're probably in the minority...

[MikLast]

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

What component will we break next?

Thats what we said in 2014. Lets not.

[cadandcookies]

Week zero made me very happy that we built a simple robot that could function even when things weren't perfectly aligned... we almost used hex shaft to pivot our shooter and now I'm extremely happy that we used those flexible IGUS bearings.

Still running into issues with wires that weren't secured properly, though... (that's what we'll be working on Monday and Tuesday, in addition to some driver practice).

[jajabinx124]

Originally Posted by cadandcookies

Still running into issues with wires that weren't secured properly, though... (that's what we'll be working on Monday and Tuesday, in addition to some driver practice).

We blew the 20A fuse on the PDP early morning yesterday at our week zero and fried a VRM due to bad wiring. (thankfully we fixed that issue) Other than that we didn't encounter many mechanical/electrical issues.

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by jajabinx124

We blew the 20A fuse on the PDP early morning yesterday at our week zero and fried a VRM due to bad wiring. (thankfully we fixed that issue) Other than that we didn't encounter many mechanical/electrical issues.

Ouch. We killed a gyro when we plugged in our robot for the first time, but fortunately that's been the worst for us so far... the main thing has been the cable to our right shooter motor, which got unplugged in two of the matches we played in Saturday.

I'm somewhat concerned that that's been the worst of our issues so far, we must be missing something...

[jajabinx124]

Originally Posted by cadandcookies

Ouch. We killed a gyro when we plugged in our robot for the first time, but fortunately that's been the worst for us so far... the main thing has been the cable to our right shooter motor, which got unplugged in two of the matches we played in Saturday.

I'm somewhat concerned that that's been the worst of our issues so far, we must be missing something...

How expensive was the gyro you guys fried?

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by jajabinx124

How expensive was the gyro you guys fried?

No idea. It was one of a few that have apparently been lying around for a few years. I'd guess around $30, so not too bad, but if we had to go out and buy another it would be dipping into a mentor because we're just about flat broke right now.

[jajabinx124]

Originally Posted by cadandcookies

No idea. It was one of a few that have apparently been lying around for a few years. I'd guess around $30, so not too bad, but if we had to go out and buy another it would be dipping into a mentor because we're just about flat broke right now.

That's good that it wasn't too expensive.. I was afraid it would be one of those expensive ones that you guys fried.. You guys could always try and find a local team in the south metro area to borrow a gyro from.

[waialua359]

"I hope the other teams have an answer to robots with rigid supported pool noodle blockers 54" tall."

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by jajabinx124

That's good that it wasn't too expensive.. I was afraid it would be one of those expensive ones that you guys fried.. You guys could always try and find a local team in the south metro area to borrow a gyro from.

Like I said, fortunately we had another couple in a box somewhere.

We're really fortunate to be surrounded with a bunch of friendly teams down here. 2220 in particular helped us out a lot at their week zero-- both with some of the last minute modifications we had to do and giving us a cylinder when we didn't have one that would let us load our boulder. It's great to have friends

[Ginger Power]

I'm thinking: "That poor field... I hope it can stand the horrible beating that our robot is going to unleash on it" seriously our driver has no regard for anything but getting from A to B quickly. I love it.

I'm also thinking that the JVN Calculator should come in the KOP. It's our first time actually doing the math for all of our mechanisms and for some reason math actually works.

[ty.sayman]

Thinking:
Why did we put so much chain on this thing?
How many times will it skip before stripping the sprocket clean?
What is going to fall(fly?!) off next?

[jwfoss]

Time to iterate, more.