how far have you gotten on your robot?

[LPaton716]

Our team prototypes everything first. So as of now it's all in cardboard and PVC. There are some details that need to be figured out with the design before we can put the kit bot chassis together. But we're basically on schedule and I'd say further along than last year so that's good. woot

[AGWSPilot]

We finished the kitbot chassis, we tossed on a couple of gears, and 2 CIM motors from last year, to set up 4 wheel drive. We did some testing, and we got it to push several cinder blocks, but the kitbot wheel slip way too much. We are searching for new wheels. Our camera is shy. It will look at the target, then stare at the ground. For our launcher, we have doodles and equations...

[cire]

We are using the kit gearboxes, not using any other parts of the kitbot though.

Our progress:
Drivetrain design completed, Parts have been ordered and should be done by friday or saturday.
Payload concept is pretty much done, hasnt been designed in detail yet though.
Programmers having fun with the camera i think.
Field is partialy completed.

[spamified88]

Ha ha, that's funny! But, yeah we have gotten some work done. We have design ideas, but we've had lots of fun shooting poofs at people with our prototype What's even funnier is that our advisor is encouraging us to shoot balls at each other! Now that I've gotten way off topic... The animation team has their concept and have started animating, we haven't assembled the vision target, but that's ok because we haven't even assembled the camera yet either. I love my team and our pro-procrastination style

[Eric Scheuing]

We're done :shifty eyes:.

[Madison]

Our prototype chassis should be completed tonight and I hope to finish milling the competition-legal chassis parts by tomorrow night. I'm a bit behind because a dumb error on my part shorted out the CNC machine and it took some time for our electrically inclined people to track down the three fried voltage rectifiers and replace them.

The manipulator design is about 75% complete, I'd say, disregarding the less-important shooting mechanism. The easiest parts are finished -- namely the superstructure -- and it's awaiting motor mounts, belting, pulleys, chain and sprockets. We will likely need to redesign our hopper as well so as to better mate it to this new manipulator.

I flip-flop back and forth between thinking that we're on or ahead of schedule and chastizing myself for working so slowly on finalizing a design.

[robotoby35138]

did you use a gear box? If so did you remember to grease the gears.

[MrBlack298]

Originally Posted by Eric Scheuing

We're done :shifty eyes:.

Yes shceuing, yes we are.

But seriously, we are working on shooter prototypes. We arent going to have much trouble on the frame and harvester this year, so what we are doing is running three prototyping teams for shooters. We put one together a few days after kickoff and it failed miserably. It was really truly awful. Hopefully these upcoming designs will work far better.

[MrBamboo]

We have prototyped our harvesting mecanism.

Infact we picked up balls smoothly just tonight using the prototype. However our chasis is not near done yet.

[mikeday51]

The chassis will be back from the cnc tomorrow and fully assembled by the end of the week. We have our final shooter mechanism (aluminum) finished as of this morning. Still a ways to go but we're getting there...

[Joe_Widen]

Well, our team has ordered most of the parts we need and plan to order the rest by wednseday. We have a shooter, a archimedes (sp?) screw, a conveyor belt and ball collector prototyped. We're using part of the kitbot chasis too. We need a few belts to get in before we do the drivetrain and we need to get some alum stock for the rest of the chasis, but otherwise, I'd say we are about on schedule.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Our base is done, and painted.

For now, we are waiting for the oh so great Fed-Ex to deliver tons of goodies from McMaster Carr.

The transmission designs are complete, and will start to be machined tomorrow. (Note: All New England teams... run and hide )

Whatever is putting the power to the floor is being machined this week.

Whatever is helping us score points has been loosely designed, and will be finalized and manufactured in the upcoming week and a half.

Programming and driver practice is expected to take >3 weeks.

[Daniel Morse]

Well...we know what we want it to do and have a mock up of the field (that we have to take down all the time because we don't have a space to leave it up). We are in design groups, and working as fast as possible to come up with a good design.

[Schwartzman]

Our team has gotten our camera working perfectly to track the green target and we have some working prototypes of our shooter, ball collector, and hopper.

[sanddrag]

Wow, it seems like quite a few people are pretty far ahead in my book. I mean, approaching finished, competition ready mechanisms/parts at the start of week 2? That's either impressive or frightening, I haven't decided which.