What every mentor is thinking right now is...

[MrRoboSteve]

Originally Posted by JohnFogarty

Since our first event is week 0.5 and I don't get my normal week of extra sleep before competition I'm try to decide how much sleep one could get during quals of an event that early.

There's 13 hours between stop build time and the start of field build. What more do you need?

[nikeairmancurry]

Finally pushed the robot in some stress tests last night.

1- Shorted a PD board after crossing a defense.

2- Ripped the "L" bracket from which our drive-train gear boxes were mounted to.

3- Destroyed the low bar

Safe to say that we might have found some weakness in the robot.

[waialua359]

"Why isnt there more robot reveals yet?"

[Ed Sparks]

(1) I remember when I could pull an all-nighter and it didn't phase me .....
(2) I wonder if I'm still married ......
(3) I wonder if 20 years of this is enough .......
(4) Maybe we should have given the software folks more time ......

[Oblarg]

...and people thought Aerial Assist was rough on robots.

It's one thing to make a robot robust to moderate impacts in the bumper zone. This is easily manageable with a bit of planning, and can be hotfixed if you didn't plan for it without too much trouble.

It is another entirely to design a drive train that can slam into large obstacles at high speeds and not get torn to shreds. A lot of the standard drive best practices just weren't designed for these constraints, which I think a lot of us (myself included) are going to learn the hard way. This is my ninth year of FRC, and I can't remember anything even close to this rough. It's going to be absolute mayhem.

On the one hand, I think this is going to be a fabulous opportunity for gracious professionalism and coopertition to shine at events as many of the robots break down and teams help each other with the fixes.

On the other, I think it might make for a lot of frustration and disappointment.

We'll see.

[wireties]

Our robot is doing some damage to the steel rock wall?

[PayneTrain]

What's next?

Just kidding, I already know what's next and it definitely isn't sleep.

[techhelpbb]

Originally Posted by Ed Sparks

(3) I wonder if 20 years of this is enough .......

No early parole for time served

After 20 years I know what the terror part was in the Toroid Terror game.
Once you start FRC you can't stop!

[mrnoble]

"I wonder if my spouse filed for divorce while I've been at robotics for the past six weeks"