MOEmentum: Week 5 - "Break Robot. Re-engineer. Repeat."

[Mr MOE]

Week 5 ALREADY!?!?!?!?!

Question of the week - who has inflicted some serious damage to their robot during driving / functionality testing?

MOEmentum: Week 5 "Break Robot. Re-engineer. Repeat" is updated and ready for reading.

Enjoy.

http://www.moe365.org/moementum6.php

[Rich Kressly]

Woo hooo ... finally, 1712 is ahead!
We've been breaking stuff and shredding balls since the very beginning.

[Alan Anderson]

We haven't broken anything on the robot yet, but we did peel up a corner of diamond plate during our first tests climbing the ramp.

[Bill Moore]

Originally Posted by Mr MOE

Week 5 ALREADY!?!?!?!?!

Question of the week - who has inflicted some serious damage to their robot during driving / functionality testing?

MOEmentum: Week 5 "Break Robot. Re-engineer. Repeat" is updated and ready for reading.

Enjoy.

http://www.moe365.org/moementum6.php

Question Two of the week - who has inflicted some serious damage to their teammates during driving / functionality testing?

[arabsponsor]

Originally Posted by Mr MOE

Week 5 ALREADY!?!?!?!?!

Question of the week - who has inflicted some serious damage to their robot during driving / functionality testing?

MOEmentum: Week 5 "Break Robot. Re-engineer. Repeat" is updated and ready for reading.

Enjoy.

http://www.moe365.org/moementum6.php

week 5 and we have had a small fire (one person wanted to use the fire extinguisher- ) and have now figured out that our ball holding mechanism is not going to work. We seem to always have one big problem around this time. Once again we will solve it and be sleep deprived when we finally ship.

[Bill Moore]

Originally Posted by arabsponsor

week 5 and we have had a small fire (one person wanted to use the fire extinguisher- ) and have now figured out that our ball holding mechanism is not going to work. We seem to always have one big problem around this time. Once again we will solve it and be sleep deprived when we finally ship.

It is somewhat poetic.

The Dragonslayers (538) fighting off a fire-breathing robot!

[JulieB]

Originally Posted by arabsponsor

week 5 and we have had a small fire (one person wanted to use the fire extinguisher- ) and have now figured out that our ball holding mechanism is not going to work. We seem to always have one big problem around this time. Once again we will solve it and be sleep deprived when we finally ship.

And rewiring is fun! to many hands in the same spot. Its was a wiring MESS!

[IraJason]

Originally Posted by Rich Kressly

Woo hooo ... finally, 1712 is ahead!
We've been breaking stuff and shredding balls since the very beginning.

Those poor balls... we barely knew thee...

Nothing like coming in the next day and finding out that what you made didn't cut it. But then again, you get to do the whole thing over again! Yippee!

[Rick TYler]

My prediction: fixing ball jamming problems will be this year's top last-minute build project.

[Barry Bonzack]

So some genius (me) on 1604 got steel C channel for our conveyorbelt system. After finishing the assemble and realizing we are going to be about 30 some pounds overweight, we are trying again with aluminum c channel.

[petek]

Uh oh - now I'm starting to worry. We must be really falling behind because a) we haven't broken the robot yet*, and b) we aren't overweight!

* (shhh, don't tell anyone our secret for not breaking the robot: keep changing things so the drivers never get a chance to break it.)

[aaeamdar]

Un for tun ate ly... don't get me started, but our robot is not yet done. Once it is done, I expect, since it goes relatively fast and we don't have a large space, we will be crashing it all over the place.

[Mr MOE]

Originally Posted by petek

Uh oh - now I'm starting to worry. We must be really falling behind because a) we haven't broken the robot yet*, and b) we aren't overweight!

* (shhh, don't tell anyone our secret for not breaking the robot: keep changing things so the drivers never get a chance to break it.)

Jeez, Pete. If 103's bot isn't overweight yet, start adding some unlightening holes and thicken up those structural materials. It's not a proper FIRST season if you don't have a robo-diet before ship date!

-j-

[petek]

Ahhh... I needn't have worried - we found a bunch of places to add too much weight tonight. Still haven't given the drivers enough opportunity to break things, but maybe if we time it right, they'll break it real good with just hours to ship.

[ForgottenSalad]

Heh, no robot to break yet. Still waiting on getting the part back that we had milled.

As far as the prototypes... Damaged two limit switches on the prototype turret and our shooter won't run without popping breakers... Needless to say, not good.

We're late but somehow we'll get it done...