crunch time

[Chuck Glick]

Originally Posted by IraJason

I am proud to say that Team 1712's robot is in full operating condition. Everything mechanical and electrical wise is finished and pretty much final, and we are currently in the testing and practicing stage. There are a few things that came up that we have to tweak a little bit, and i'm sure that a few more are going to come up before ship, but it doesn't look like we're going to have to go into panic mode to get the bot finished. A little code optimization and mechanical tweaks here and there and we should have our pretty much final robot and code.

dude, ira, i mean c'mon we are totally done...forget the autonomus code...pssh who needs that...jkjk.

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

What shifters? Did somebody say shifters? Do we have pictures of these? I may be able to offer advice if you describe the problem.

we built team 33's 2004 transmission from their excellent white paper. It runs great, and the problem is in the code (they don't shift simultaneously) we're fixing it with a new pneumatics setup

[Andrew Blair]

I suppose we're doing alright. Ball collection and shooter feed done, elcetronics done, shooter 90% done, code, probably done (without autonomous), but the turret and hopper are not even started. Frustration=1.

[ida_noeman]

Originally Posted by Andrew Blaircode

code, probably done (without autonomous). Frustration=1.

Autonomous could possibly be the hardest part!

[KTorak]

Mechanically....we're almost done minus a few things that are still "quick fixes", some tweaking of components, and some sensors and the like we need to add. As for programing, the robot runs, but we still have some sensors and the like to program and autonomous to work on. I'd say we are overall around 90% done (and doing well wieght wise).

[Andrew Blair]

Originally Posted by ida_noeman

Autonomous could possibly be the hardest part!

Eh, I hope not. Most of our operation should be automatic, so its (for the most part), just moving the functions. Again, I hope!

[Jonathan Norris]

Mechanically we are 95% done, drove the robot today and picked up 20+ balls flawlessly (look for video tonight), all conveyor belts are done, cannon is 75-80% built, should be on the robot tomorrow. Tested the robot for the first time tonight, found a few things to fix, but as I said the robot picked up the balls wonderfully. Code and autonomous is a work in progress though.

[Greg Marra]

We are this far from completion:

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[Kim Masi]

I think it is difficult to say how far along we are at this point because everything still needs to come together. We had some parts out sourced that will be in tomorrow, and hopefully we can put everything together. I'd say overall we're only 60% done, because of the major obstacles we've had to overcome...25 inches of snow didn't help either...hehe

good luck to everyone in the final push, we've made it so far!