So who's up late tonight?

[sanddrag]

got out of the machine shop at 2:30 am yesterday, still awake right now, not fun.

only 6 weeks is too hard on the mentors

[Keo-san]

just got done for the night... a two hour nap and then driving practice!

[Cory]

We've been in the shop since around 10 AM Friday.

[Tetraman]

I'm up late...but not for robots...more like fine arts final.

[Pavan Dave]

Unfortunately for the state of Texas, we have a STANDARDIZED test tomorrow which for the juniors is an exit level test so we get to leave our robot an hour earlier than other school nights...Just our luck...Don't you love state standardized tests?!?

[K.Porter]

I've been doing 12 hour shifts for the last two days, and will probably be in longer today... (9 AM start, 9 PM end, repeat.)

(This is what happens when the team decides that the majority of electrical and programming work will be left for the last weekend of build...and add on top of that the functional testing going on... )

[prettycolors91]

My computer screen is starting to hurt my eyes. I was up all night last night working on the chairmans/woody flowers submissions due to the fact that the chairmans team consists of 5 professional procrastinators. And it looks like I'm going to be writing all day again today.........tonight is parent night for HOT so all of our submissions have to be presentable. *Groan*

[Anfony]

=D Shipping tomorrow, whoo! (here till 12)

[Elpants]

I would but...My Finals start tomorrow.


Priorities priorities...

[Samuel H.]

We had to stop at 7, but the robot is coming okay.
All that's left is some programming for the elevator, and minor tweaks.
We are actually under weight for once!

[akshar]

ill be up late...studying.
robot is in the crate.

[Sam N.]

Team 1351 is up the river. We're just finishing putting cables in on the arm, which has been shortened so it can't reach the top ringer. Our chassis is a little messed up now as well. Fortunately, it's a software problem (not my department). Our bumper brackets were removed and cheese-holed recently; when they were put back on the robot the bumpers didn't fit. Every bracket is slightly different... and only fits the bumper when it's in the correct corner of the robot. Furthermore, the bumper flames are on the wrong way-that's gonna look queer. Our project manager has broken down, and i've lost my work ethic. Software just gave up, and now we're going home. My laptop is being closed right now.... as i finish typing this post.

Good luck everyone.

[kaszeta]

Originally Posted by Sam N.

Team 1351 is up the river.

Take a fews days off, plan, and regroup. Trust me, personal mentoring experience has shown that you can be in very dire straits on ship date (never having tested code on the final robot, 15 lbs overweight, and several systems just plain not working) and still pull it together. Figure out what's working, what's not, and ask lots of questions here.

Good luck.

[StephLee]

I just finished the first round of editing on our Chairman's Award submission, cut it down from 130 characters over to almost 200 under the limit...my gosh, it's almost 2...so yet again, I doubt I'll be fully functional tomorrow.

I miss the robot already.

[FunkyRatDemon]

Originally Posted by StephLee

I just finished the first round of editing on our Chairman's Award submission, cut it down from 130 characters over to almost 200 under the limit...my gosh, it's almost 2...so yet again, I doubt I'll be fully functional tomorrow.

I miss the robot already.

We'll be finishing up our Chairmans last minute...

We just scrapped our ramps systems to make an incredibly (more) efficient grabber and lift, we'll post them later...(assuming we finish ).