How do you feel toward you robot?

[TimCraig]

I'm pretty disappointed. We had a good plan and the execution was good until the last two weeks of the build and then it kind of fell apart. This is my 4th year mentoring a FIRST team and it's most likely my last.

[SpaceBoy2000]

Luke described it best: "What a piece of junk!"

Well, I think it'll rip itself apart in our first round. First, the motor mounts will go, since I kinda fudged them all together. Next, the hopper will collapse, and the electronics will melt into a smoking heap. Yes, I'm really surpised it's held itself together for so long. Or the fact that the picker upper roller thing works. Honestly, the measurements were winged ("Eh, this looks right"), the whole $@#$@#$@#$@# system was untested, and I was running off CAD drawings as soon as I thought of something.

Thank god I didn't touch the design of the cannon too much, at least one part of our robot might not blow up. And the drive system was rigged without me, so, I guess that should work too. Basically, if I had no connection to it, it'll be fine.

I hate how undermanned we are. Our robot's fat and overweight. Thank god we fed it cheese for the last few days, at least it's BARELY in the weight limit.

[Zoheb N]

i feel awesome about our robot...mostly cause it actually works and i spent many hours on it with barely and sleep and i think most of the other people feel the same way...

[Wolf103FM]

I'm feeling decent about ours this year, Our only problem is the shooter though so that is kinda giving me mixed feelings, wondering if we can get it working or not. Every year we've had something that doesn't work as planned, or at all, we never got the camera even hooked up. We didn't discover the shooter problem until Monday night before ship, becausre that was the first time we had actually tested it hooked up to the robot, so right then I was about ready to go outside and beat the ever living crap out of something. Buy hey, having fun and enjoying it is just as good as winning, and if you win, that's just an added bonus. We've still got a whole month until the trip (Palmetto) to think about how to get that thing working, so who knows, maybe our streak of having our main function not work right will be over this year, if not, there's still next year.

[sanddrag]

Hey everybody,

Whatever your robot looks like, be proud of it. Even if it isn't powder coated, anodized, and CNCed, YOU built it and YOU made it happen. YOU just gave up 6 weeks of your life for something you believed in, and no matter the outcome, that is something for anyone to be proud of. Even if your robot didn't turn out exactly as you thought it would, you have accomplished and learned more in the past six weeks than probably a majority of people in the country. Be proud of your machine. Don't kick it to the gutter. Stand behind it. Believe in it. Give it your all. Take pride in your robot.

[NoodleKnight]

How I feel? There's a LOT of room for improvement, haha.

But anyways, +1 to sanddrag's comment, I do like the robot which my team has created, even if it does have a long string of problems that will indefinetaly plague us during the competitions. =P

I love it but it could still be greatly improved!