Who is finished???

[Uberbots]

thoughts are coming together... and hopefully they will form a robot.
but hey, whatever the mechanical team isnt able to do the software team can do, right?

Shipping date is looking a lot closer than it should....

[LightWaves1636]

Robot? What robot?! We were suppose to build a robot. Ah man, don't know how the team's going to take it when I tell them the news.lol

But seriously, we're not even %50 done. We know exactly what we're building, the right parts are the problem. Our OI board, electronics board, and crate is done though.

[Ryan Dognaux]

Materials, materials, materials. It seems to be the one biggest problems we're having, having to order something and having to wait on parts. Our frame has been welded and a few other parts of been manufactured. We should have a drive up and running by this weekend if all goes according to plan, as well as our other parts coming together as well

These six weeks sure are flying by...

[Nate Edwards]

The left side and bottom half of our robot is completely done, the right is held on my clamps and springs and a punch tool.

[Dan Petrovic]

We finished our first chassis yesterday and we had it driving around. So now, software gets some time to play with it. We have to make some minor adjustments tomorrow, but after that it should be a pretty smooth ride.

Our schedule says that our second robot will be completed two weeks from now. I really think we can pull it off.

[burkey_turkey]

Originally Posted by InfernoX14

Our schedule says that our second robot will be completed two weeks from now.

second robot? wow... we havent even finsihed our first and you guys are on your second...

ya our robot is coming slow and steady. its a slight bit behind schedule, but nothing too bad. we just got two more banebot gearboxes last night (shout out to GODWIN team 540 lives!) and we will finish up the drive once exams are over and we are allowed to work again. besides that, an arm and some small little things need to be added and it will be done. we still cannot decide whether to have a simple scooping mechanism or a claw type grabing thing on the end of the arm, so we are making both. but honestly, making two full robots....gee wiz...

[artdutra04]

We received our non-powder coated, practice robot frame back from the CNC shop on Monday, and we have that assembled. Once our second frame comes back from the CNC shop and powder coating, we'll cease work on the practice bot and work on the real robot.

Our powder coated frame is due back to our shop on Friday, where we can hopefully get the drive chassis done this weekend. We set an overall robot target completion date of one week before ship to give enough time to program it and to allow our drivers enough "stick time" to learn the robot inside and out.

[StephLee]

Our team tends to think...and re-think...and prototype...and think a bit more...then suddenly decide to throw it all together and the 'bot is done in about a week.

[Alan Anderson]

Depending on how you count, we've made less than zero progress so far -- we partially disassembled last year's robot.

[Jeremiah H]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

Materials, materials, materials. It seems to be the one biggest problems we're having, having to order something and having to wait on parts. Our frame has been welded...
These six weeks sure are flying by...

Same thing here. Our drivetrain is running and we have our ideas in decent order, but we are waiting now on the main parts for our arm. When those come in, hopefully things will come together relatively quickly. We have decided that from here on we're going to design to parts that we have in stock or can fabricate ourselves, no more pieces that we don't have the equipment to make. (as was/is the reason we're waiting right now...)
Things really aren't going too bad for us, compared to other years.