how far have you gotten on your robot?

[Nuttyman54]

and even if it is done, most people won't post it on. Most of the pics of nearly completed robots won't appears until 1 or 2 weeks before ship

[jonathan_powers]

all we lack is finishing up// no we actually got our robot built but now were taking off weight and finishing the custome frame and spinner rims jk about the rims but we are further than ever at this point so we think well get in alought of drive time. make sure you have a muffin fan on wour speed controllers for a cim they get a little hot running constant and if you have another flux capasator could you send it to us were running out

[Jonathan Norris]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Why should the gallery show a half way done robot? My theory is, if your robot is half way done (in fabrication) right now, you haven't thought about it enough.

I totally agree, how could anyone already have there whole robot built. To really design a good robot you need a few good weeks of brainstorming. We just started to build only at the beginning of this week, we have a lot done but still have more than a week of build left.

[team1307]

Frame is build and parts are on for mockup.. weve made a ball launcher, and are currently trying to get out autonomous and cmu cam to worlk together. We still havent build our ball picker-upper yet.

[Rickertsen2]

So we are now about half way through the build season. How far is your team?

We are running really behind this year. We have a lower frame, alot of parts on order and a bunchload of CAD drawings. We are waiting for a bunch of parts which are being made out of house because we have very limited machine tools.
Hopefully next week we will have a completed drivetrain and launcher.

[Ryan M.]

We could be further... it's been driven, but the major ball shooting components have yet to be completed. *shrug*

[kaszeta]

Like most teams, we're running a little behind, but it's no big deal yet. Ball shooter, drive train, ball storage, etc have all been designed and prototyped, and the students are now madly building it all. I suspect the final drivetrain will be done this weekend for testing and programming.

Is it Feb 21st yet?

[nuggetsyl]

we are still on the drawing board.

shaun

[Billfred]

1293's making progress. The drivetrain is getting assembled, and should be able to be driven (if we throw on our practice bot electricals) by the end of business on Saturday. We could probably have gotten it by this point if we'd received our wheels and other materials before last Saturday, but such is the way of shipping. I'm not worried there.

The scoring team has pretty much nailed down the plan, and the CAD drawings are coming fast and furious. I'm not working with them too much, so I can't go into further details.

[Veselin Kolev]

CAD, done. 2 speed drivetrain, done. Chassis, in welding, back on Sunday. Watercutting, done. Manipulator One fabrication, done. Manipulator two fabrication, 50% done. Robot, done next weekend.

(muahahaha)

[Rick TYler]

As usual, Team 1294 asypmtotically approaches a finished robot.

[EOC]

Our robot is mobile and our launcher is functional; they just are not joined together yet. Our camera works and sometimes tracks the green light.

Team 1208

[sanddrag]

We started making actual parts just yesterday. This scares me, a lot.

[Cactus_Robotics]

Our team is .... well we have a lot to do still but progress has been made. Someone lost our order from skyway, had to reorder, have overnighted, that was Tuesday still haven't seen them. Have a lot of parts at the machine shop but I guess were doing OK based on others comments/stories.

[lukevanoort]

We er... Well. We haven't really gotten very far. We are still debating on how to attach our treading, but it won't really matter until out sprockets (wheel and tranny) come in. The shooter design is done... sorta. The hopper and ball pickup is entirly up in the air. We have a couple of designs for each, but we're divided on which to chosse. So, in a nutshell, we're having a tough year since we have maybe five kids working on the robot and a couple of mentors.