working til midnight

honestly i have not experienced working till midnight this year.

-Court-

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Originally Posted by LightWaves1636

anybody has those kind of nights yet? we haven't yet but sure enough, we'll most likely have on friday and saturday night I bet.

We have been lucky this year and no late nights. Our robot is finished except for the polishing and painting. We do work 2:30-4:30 (programming, animation, inventor ect...) and 5:00 to 8:00 or 9:00 each weeknight and Saturdays are 9:00 to whenever. (usually 5:00). This sponsor can tell you she is ready to ship and go back to cooking for her family

[chinckley]

We have been on weeknights until 11 pm this week and last weekend
we were here Sat. 8 am - 9 pm and Sunday 10 - 9 pm

Most nights we start by 5 and are done by 10 to 11.
The last three weekends we work Saturday and Sunday.
The first three it is Saturday only.

We tried an overnight one year. We were not too productive the next night.

[Jeff K.]

This year, the latest we've worked was an all nighter on VEX with a friend in our hotel room at San Diego, the night before the FLL competition at Legoland for the FLL team we mentored. I don't recommend doing this or doing long work days or working without rest because your work begins to get sloppy. This past Saturday, we worked from 9AM until 10PM and by 9:30 PM, which was the latest we had worked for FRC sofar this season. My work on drivetrain had begun to get a little sloppy and wasn't too productive, as I had worked and spent all day on it and really needed a break. It's fun though because sometimes you get the see how your friends are when they're sleep deprived.

I would love to to that.. except nobody would want to lol, not even mentors

[freshmandriver]

we have been working every weeknight, 7 to 10 pm
saturdays we work 9am to 2 am sunday morning, and 1 pm to 10pm sunday night
oh and fridays we work from 7pm to 2 am saturday morning
we are all very tired...

[Daniel Morse]

I have been trying to have our team stick to the specified times (4-7 weekdays, and 10-4 Saturdays), but at this point I am working 4-usually 8 on weekdays because I am one of 3 primary machinists for the team. I have to limit the time I work from 4 to 8 because Calculus, Chemistry, and Physics homework await to be finished at home. However; I believe that a few members of our team (me included) may pull an all nighter or two this weekend if neccessary.

[joshR515]

Originally Posted by ngreen

We unveil at least some sort of functional robot for our school at the pep rally for winter homecoming. This was last Friday for us this year. Usually the Thursday before people stay until we have something presentable. At least for all four years we've been up in the range of 3 to 4 am on that Thursday. But the students at the pep rally always love the robot.

Another one of my favorites was a mentor on our team travels during the week for his job but is able to work weekends. So if he can get a student to stay we will work late. Two years ago we started making our winch to lift the robot at around 8 pm on a Friday night and by 2 am we had it mounted on the robot and working. We then lifted ourselves off the platform with it, turned off the light, and left it hanging so the rest of the team would find it when they came in a 9 am the next morning. We knew our winch would work when we came back and it hadn't moved.

yes we have had many of those, some days i didnt get home from school till 1130-12 at night! saturday we were working from 9AM till about 2 the next morning

[hayakuneko]

hm none yet, although I do think we'll be having many late nights this week.

though I do remember last year's late night, I stayed up till 5 AM the day of the pre-ship scrimmage at chatsworth...

[LightWaves1636]

well, I am a rookie and all ans this is our team's second year, I think the veterans want at least one all-nighter to happen as a team traidtion to add to the other tradition of the robot doing doughtnuts when we have achieve it's first radio signal.

[vadyr]

our animation crew has worked till 11 every night for all of last week...and thank god our animation is in and done...:hew::

[Parker]

Originally Posted by micro3000x

I wish we had all nighters (or weekend lockdowns for that matter)

Beware of what you wish for!

[windup zeppelin]

long days are kinda fun. I like working on weekends partly becuase we stay from about 10 a.m. 'til 11 p.m.

[steven114]

10:22, team 114 is still in the shop!

[Calvin]

Yea, I think 6 weeks is not really enough time...
We will soon be working till Midnight.

Especially me the programmer, I don't think I will sleep at all this Saturday OR Sunday!