Finally! Who has shipped?

[Tom Bottiglieri]

I just got home from our last night of working on the bot. It had to be at our sponsor by 10 tonight for shipping preparation.

it is official that we will be the team that does everything. We shipped a bot base and not only 7, BUT 8 attachments. 3 of these were made in 6 weeks, 5 were made in 2 days.... not one is done. we need to finish whatever we decide to do at regionals.

Who else has shipped their bots, and how much work needs to be done at the regionals?

[Elgin Clock]

From what I saw when I stopped by the other night, you should be ok, but you do realize that during weigh in all attachments have top be present right??

We ship our robot off to our sponsor at 9-10 am so it can be out of our hands by 5:00pm tomorrow...

I'm going to be sad to see it off, but we did have a major breakthrough last night and it got the whole team psyched up right before we started packing the robot in the crate!!

[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

[nick_champ_2]

As of 2-25-2004 @ 9:40e are still at school trying to get the three extras working we will post a picture of the final product after everyone has shipped. spec. one arm that can grab the bar, a way to grab the mobil goal, and a way that can pull the 118 lbs. off the ground 6 ft. we will be at the school until probably 3 o'clock. this is not the first time that our team has stayed this long. we did it last year. our whole team is extreamly tired and need a ton of sleep.

[Sscamatt]

you guys are lucky, we get kicked out at like 10pm when the janitors leave...if we want them to stay we have to pay...are you paying for someone to be at the school?

[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