Finally! Who has shipped?

[M. Hicken]

ours ships tomorrow at 3:30, we have NOTHING to do at the regional other than calibrate the banners. I hope that you get all of the mechanisms done in time to use them, keep in mind that all possible attachments must be weighed in w/ the robot. Even if you have 2 arms, everything gets weighed together, it gets tough to stay under 130 w/ too many things.

Good luck at the regionals

Marcus - Team 219

[mightywombat]

I just got back from our last meeting as well... The last two people over there had just left to go over to the university to weigh it... I'm kinda nervous. It was pretty sweet though, the whole bot minus our 4 foot top arm joint fit in the back of his camry-like midsize car. I think they will have the thing back to the workshop and in the box before too long....

We do still need to work on our ball pincer at the comps, it grabs them but its not too hot.

[Sscamatt]

We kinda just threw a bunch of stuff in the crate...it was so much fun

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Sscamatt

We kinda just threw a bunch of stuff in the crate...it was so much fun

it was more like
"do we need this?"
"throw it in the crate"
"do we need this?"
"throw it in the crate"
"do we need this?"
"throw it in the crate"

x 1000

[KenWittlief]

I escorted our crate down to the shipping dock at Gleason at 12:30 am this morning.

Now its all up to that big guy up there!

you know

FedEx! :c)

[Chris Fultz]

1 AM - 234 is in the crate and ready for PHOENIX!

[ChrisA]

Originally Posted by mightywombat

I just got back from our last meeting as well... The last two people over there had just left to go over to the university to weigh it... I'm kinda nervous. It was pretty sweet though, the whole bot minus our 4 foot top arm joint fit in the back of his camry-like midsize car. I think they will have the thing back to the workshop and in the box before too long....

We do still need to work on our ball pincer at the comps, it grabs them but its not too hot.

I wouldn't worry much about the pincer. They haven't even finished building it yet.... They'll have something good, I just know it.

And for the record, the robot was placed inside the back seat of a Nissan Sentra. I could not believe it actually fit. Currently 2.5lbs over . Hopefully they can lose that weight tonight.

[deltacoder1020]

Originally Posted by ChrisA

Currently 2.5lbs over . Hopefully they can lose that weight tonight.

"I swear, they're speed holes! Honest!"

[OneAngryDaisy]

we ship between 3-5 pm tomorrow.. I just got home (3 AM)... All i can say is this has by far been the best two weeks of my life. Ironic too, since I was there (tech center) until 12 every night, including weekends.

[ShadowKnight]

well, team 1123 boxed her up in the crate as of 2:01 am...man oh man...the elation I was getting as we watched the bot test hanging on the bar...then as I was able to wash my hands of robotics for 3 weeks...it has been a very long and tiring 6 weeks. I needs some sleep...

[Aaron Lussier]

Yea it's crated up... It's not done and It can't do what we designed it to do but thats becide the point right... It's all about the fun.

-Aaron

[bstempi]

Team 708 isn't that bad off. Once we find out how much underweight we are, we'll see if we can add any bracing. We have a slight problem handeling sideways twisting and with skid steering. Other than that, we're pretty good. We stuck the bot in the box last night at 10:30 and shrink wrapped the crate. Luckey us that we can ship right from the school

[Lord Nerdlinger]

We shipped ours..

and considering it still doesn't move, i'd say we have quite a bit of work to do at the regional..

although all our subsystems work pefectly...

I think we did things in the wrong order

[DirtyBird213]

We crated at noon and packed up the robot and batteries. We then thought we would be clever and drive the robot to our FEDEX facility. When we got inside we found out that they do not accept any packages over 150 pounds. So we scrambled to call the freight pick up and got our robot loaded from in front of the school at 4:35pm. Now I can breath again!!!! So lesson learned- Don't be clever just call and get it picked up.

[Madison]

Since I've been sitting in bed sick, I have no idea if or when our robot was shipped -- but I'm sure happy that it's gone