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View Poll Results: When do you expect to have your robot complete?
Week 4 or before - We are an awesome team 15 11.72%
Week 5 - We need the practice time, our drivers are, well ?? 46 35.94%
Week 6 - Our drivers don't need practice so we perfect our robot 17 13.28%
5:00 am ship day - so much to do, so little time 30 23.44%
We finish at the regional, why rush? 20 15.63%
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Re: Survey - When do you expect to have your robot complete?

Theory 1:
We finish at the end of week four and have a week to debug and practice driving.

Theory 2:
We get a rolling chassis together around 6am the day of the UTC Scrimmage Saturday before shipping and debug between then and the ship date.

Theory 3:
We discovery we are either way overweight or aren't playing the game right at the scrimmage and do a panic redesign in the last 48-96 hours.

This is a good case for plan for the best prepare for the worst. I have not had a competition Thursday at which I didn't have a panic of figuring out how to fix what broke so i go in with that mindset. I would like to have a clam practice day this year but I doubt its in the cards.

Remember when you say a good robot is never finished one fundamental rule for engineers:
"Better is the worst enemy of good enough."
Sometimes you just have to move on even though you know you didn't have the optimal solution.

Pete
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