Who is behind schedule

edomus · #1 25-01-2004, 11:37

No finalized design (exams)
No building
We are pretty far behind
all is not lost, we were farther behind at this point last year and were still able to win a regional!

Sachiel7 · #2 25-01-2004, 11:57

Well I don't think we're as far behind as others here, but we're getting behind on our schedule.
We were supposed to have a driving chassis by the end of the day yesterday, but we're not quite there yet.
We're trying to set up more work time during the day. We've currently only had 2 3-4 hour meetings, and 1 5 hour meeting a week. It's really not enough.
But our controls are almost done, which is ahead of sched., I think, so I'm feeling ok.
I'm just waiting for our wheels to arrive on my doorstep.

Ryan Albright · #3 25-01-2004, 11:59

well good luck to all, ya i forgot to mention that we usually finish the robot in the last week, but we always want to finish cause we need to practice especailly this year and what was nice was the massive snow storm last year that delayed shipping for 2 days.....I hate to say to you all that live all in the snow but i am hoping for another snow storm to extend build time

shyra1353 · #4 25-01-2004, 12:01

we came up with a schedule for the robot before the season started. and according to it, we are extremely far behind. we just finalized our design on friday, and started to build yesterday. building meaning we have the metal for our chassis all cut and some of the aluminum mounted on it, but no wheels in it yet ...

we have not been able to meet all week (except for friday) because of exams all last week .. and they go on until wednesday this coming week !!!

David66 · #5 28-01-2004, 11:09

66 is just about on track, but today is our second snow day in a row, so we're looking at meeting anyway. We are probably two weeks ahead of where we were at this time last season. Good luck everyone!

ShadowKnight · #6 28-01-2004, 11:39

Last year...man oh man...took us a full 2 weeks to come up with a basic idea for what we wanted to do. The last 4 weeks, we ran off the seat of our pants improvising at every build meeting, which were only scheduled 3 times a week. This year, God has been very goodto us. We had a set design within a week and a half and began buiding not long after that. We plan on having a chasis with wheels and possibly a drive train by the end of the week. We'll then have 3 weeks to practice driving, test autonomous and tweak it so that it will work (some fun stuff right there

) and build our arm...that seems to be a popular design...Like I said, God has blessed us even more so than He did last year

Bill Beatty · #7 29-01-2004, 11:05

FYI
Dean Kamen's #1 reality rule of project development is

"Fall behind early"

View Poll Results: How far are you behind
Ahead of schedule	15	11.63%
On time	30	23.26%
behind	60	46.51%
Schedule? who needs a schedule	24	18.60%
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