Who Builds your teams Robot?

[Ian W.]

Well, the students did about 100% of the building, unbuilding, rebuilding, unbuilding, and finally rebuilding again. Yeah, we changed our design about 3 or 4 times, and of course, the frame was already togeter. all i can say is thank god we used extrusion.

going a bit further with the question, the robot was built by a core group consiting of two mentors (one being Michael Krass), one technology teacher, and 3 or 4 students, including me. even though i didn't do as much of the physical building of the robot, i did a good chunk of the coding, and had to correct some of dan's, as he did with mine . I can say that all 100% of the coding was done by the students (well, Joe Ross helped me discover a way around a problem, even if he tried to screw up the code ).

the only parts that we didn't build purselves were the gears for the atwoods, the delran rollers, the delran/PVC idlers, and the machined alluminum. next year, we should be able to at least machine our own aluminum, cause i believe we're supposed to get new machines in the classroom where we build. should have lots of fun next year.