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Unread 19-02-2007, 23:57
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Re: So who's up late tonight?

1293 isn't up late but I am.

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Unread 19-02-2007, 23:58
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Re: So who's up late tonight?

For the first year ever, we didn't have a mad dash to finish the robot. Aside from the banebot transmission, oh EVIL banebot transmissions! (curse their cruel demon-spawned black hearts of malice), things went surprisingly smooth for us this season. Our progs even got incredibly lucky, first time running arm code with memory positions and it worked perfectly.

ANd then, at around 5-6ish the banebot transmission violently died, we decided to keep it and ship our arm in parts in the crate. Slapped our brand spankin new wheels on, took it our mentor's classroom and crated the sucker up.

Hard to believe it's gone.

Good luck to all the teams who have a LOOONG night ahead of them. May the spirit of the Dew keep thee awake.

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Re: So who's up late tonight?

Team 753 just started tonight (All other pics were phoney)

In all seriousness, we're "finishing" up our robot, we just to fix the grabber, fix the lift, and possibly add the carbon-fiber panels...

[edit]we scraped the carbon-fibers[/edit]
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Unread 20-02-2007, 00:07
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Re: So who's up late tonight?

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.

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Unread 20-02-2007, 00:19
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Re: So who's up late tonight?

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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.

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Unread 20-02-2007, 01:39
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Re: So who's up late tonight?

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.
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Unread 20-02-2007, 01:53
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Re: So who's up late tonight?

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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 ).
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Unread 20-02-2007, 02:28
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Re: So who's up late tonight?

Wahoo! I'm finally home! 5 fuses and 2 Spikes later and a battery relocation later, we found the short on our robot, and finally got the robot's weight balanced. We drove it for the first time in competition state shortly after midnight.

We're getting better. Last year we pulled out at 2:30, and the year before at 4. We were ready to go at 1:30 but it took a little longer than we expected to crate the robot (normally we crate around lunchtime).
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Unread 20-02-2007, 02:35
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Re: So who's up late tonight?

well friday night we pulled an all nighter to try and get ready for saturdays scrimmage. We weren't ready but went with our bot anyways.
Sunday I was at tech till 11:30 something and had to go home becuase I just applied for my new liscense and still have a legal cerfuw. Today I was there till like 11:40. And we just found out we are pretty over weight. And we have to ship tomorrow at 6 pm.
We were hoping to make this year the first year that the bot was ready by the first regional. It is looking a little slim now but I still have quite a bit of hope. Luckily we have no school tomorrow. It is lik teh school board knows or something lol
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Unread 20-02-2007, 02:50
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Re: So who's up late tonight?

We closed the crate (with a finished robot) at 10 PM. A first for us in a few years.

It's a strange feeling not having to make a list of what "ABSOLUTELY" needs to be done at the regional and making a "would be nice... if we felt like getting around to it" list instead.
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Re: So who's up late tonight?

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We closed the crate (with a finished robot) at 10 PM. A first for us in a few years.

It's a strange feeling not having to make a list of what "ABSOLUTELY" needs to be done at the regional and making a "would be nice... if we felt like getting around to it" list instead.
YARLY. Sometimes the list of things that "would be nice" is a little long though
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Re: So who's up late tonight?

Who's up late tonight? Well, of course 604. See, tradition demands that we go late working on the night before ship date.
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Unread 20-02-2007, 03:09
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Re: So who's up late tonight?

It just hit 12:06 here, were 1.7lbs over-weight!
Were chesse-holeing everything!
We still need a place to hold the Alliance Flag, our Team #, and a place for our great sponsors...
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Unread 20-02-2007, 03:11
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Re: So who's up late tonight?

Late? There is no definition for that word when it is the night before shipdate.
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Unread 20-02-2007, 03:44
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Re: So who's up late tonight?

1610 finished at 3:15 am when the robot was crated...lots of tired kids and mentors...
sheesh when it positively, absolutely has to be done in 6 weeks.....
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