How far are you on your robot?

[waialua359]

Our robot is finished (1st phase), ready to test. However, the fine tuning, programming, calibrations, etc. take a lot of time. AND, our drivers are terrible at the moment (new this year). Cant emphasize enough that driving is a KEY part of prepping during the 6 weeks. Robots, IMO, should be done at the latest after 5 weeks.
To ensure this, we spent many weeks prior getting things ready rather than waiting until kickoff. Veteran teams do this and/or have materials ready.
I understand that not every team can do this, like US. But there is a lot of things that teams should and can do to not waste unnecessary time.

[SSMike]

We are currently doing fine and hope to be completely (mechanically) finished by next weekend. After that we can program, wire, and test it.

[Adama]

it drives

[T3_1565]

as an update to what I said, we are on schedule now lol. Half our arm is done and running, our chassis drives now, and we have fixed most errors in what has been programmed so far I feel much better lol

[Andrew Blair]

Eh, we're currently about 2-3 good days behind, but we should catch up Saturday with luck. Designs for the ramp and manipulator are nearly completely hashed out- just final dimensioning and fabrication/welding, and the electrical/pneumatics are done, organized, and troubleshot for the most part. Drive base is up and running like a champ, and if we can get back onto schedule shortly, we should have a little over a week for programming, troubleshooting, practice, and dare I say...powder coating?

We are definitely more organized this year than we have ever been, in 9 years.

Hope everybody can stay sane for the home stretch!

[akshar]

came home today, we are a little behind schedule nothing a little weekend can not fix. hopefully our arm and manipulator will be mounted tomorrow, and then the rampS!

[GMKlenklen]

it's going to be a race with the devil. (FedEx dude)