Who is gonna be working til midnight on Tuesday?

[paulcd2000]

Luckily, our only problem is that we haven't a chance to test our autonomous code... at all. Oh, and having "magic smoke" pour out of the bot when the bump sensor's wires short circuited didn't help. We probably will be done late Monday, early Tuesday. (i hope)

I don't think we will be working late. 668 looks to be in pretty good shape. Everything is pretty much working as designed. I don't want to spoil the surprise until we uncrate at Silicon Valley. I am very impressed with this team and the great support they get from their parents and sponsors. I'll give you all one hint:

Can you say "Fire and Forget?"

[Dillon Compton]

Well, I dont know about the rest of the team, but i'll probably be working into late monday night...

I'm the sole (student) electrician (and I prefer to do the wiring, as then I know where everything is for programming and competition) and programmer, and I wont get the bot for either thing until sunday at the earliest...

Yipee?

Everything tends to get done, but I would be much more comfortable if this were a week ago...I get the feeling I'll be doing "practice-round autonomous testing" as my sole type again this year...

Well, I'm going to get some sleep while I can- I'll be pulling 14+ hour days for the next few (thats what I get for having a father as lead mentor...heh.)

good luck to all who will be working in the coming 3 days!

[FIRST JerseyKid]

Yesturday 4-12
today 11am-12pm
tomorrow 11am-12pm
monday 10am-1pm 3pm-5pm

[Nawaid Ladak]

shipping is on tuesday, right?

so why is the subject...whatever, im not going into that right now, here is our scedule

thurs: 2:15pm-11:30pm thursday night, almost friday morning
fri: 2:15pm-5:00am saturday morning
sat: 7am-6:30pm (robot ruckus)
sun: Off so we could sleep
mon-tue: 10am monday-whenever tuesday, or if the ship date is on wednesday, we might acutally go home before ship

[Barry Bonzack]

(I'm surprised I'm the first one to post this)

Only midnight?

[Calvin]

I hope we finish the robot in time... we will be working past midnight on monday...

AND HOW late can FedEx pick up stuff this tuesday!?

If we don't finish we will throw parts into the crate and finish the robot at the event!

[Eldarion]

We have to ship on Tuesday during the day, so it looks like we'll be working pretty late on Monday

[Katie Reynolds]

Fed-Ex is picking our robot up between noon and 5 pm (how's that for a timespan - geez! ) so at noon, Francios VII will be packed in his beautiful blue crate, ready for his journey to the Great Lakes Regional!

[KTorak]

FedEx is coming sometime betweek 8am and 5pm...go figure. So we have to be done by 8am Tuesday. I see the potential for a late night tonight if we run across some sort of catostrophic failure or problem with some component (and I pray we dont).

[Beth Sweet]

Yeah, the time frame this year is reeeeeeally long. Oh well, I'm just grateful they're donating!

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Calvin

I hope we finish the robot in time... we will be working past midnight on monday...

AND HOW late can FedEx pick up stuff this tuesday!?

To quote the scientist in I, ROBOT;

"That my friend, is the right question".

5pm (local time) is the last fed-ex pickup unless you arrange something else special with your local fed-ex supplier themselves and I doubt that will happen.

Anyways, the midnight deadline was very deceiving.

Sure, go ahead and wait till midnight to ship your robot.

Good luck finding someone to pick it up and sign off on it.

[orelinde]

Well here it is 12:34 am and i think we are not even close to ready to go home. We found out only hours ago that we needed to loose some weight ... no no not people wieght .. robot weight. to make things even worse the amount of wieght yuck 28 pounds before we add the shooter and if we add shooter then we need to loose 48 pounds at least. we are now making holes ... well everywhere. looks like sleep is not happening tonight.

*looks into work area* o.O does anyone else realise how much of a mess wood and metal weight loss can make ACK poor clean up crews.

[Tim Delles]

Well i just got back and it looks like our bot is pretty well done. We just had packing her up and shipping her out at 4:30. That is 4:30 am, meaning in 4 hours from this post.

[KTorak]

Just got home around 30 min ago (at 12:05am). We packed up "The Ellenator" at 11:45pm. Drivers, HP, and Coach are selected, robot is done (except a problem child wheel that works, but needs to be checked) and some autonomous coding. We have a pretty good autonomuos, just needs more work on another part. I unfortunately have to be up at 6am to go back to school at 7am Won't see sleep for anther 30-45 min after I eat and finally fall asleep.