How far are teams right now? Behind Schedual?

[SoJ]

We're about on schedule. It's my first year on the team, but it seems pretty rigorous. We've got some brainstorming done, and I'm pretty sure tonight will be it for prototyping. After that, we'll flesh out more work on the manipulator and get it fabricated ASAP. Since we've decided on the drive train, we'll be fabricating that now. Programming won't start for a while, but I hope we can at least try to get SOMETHING going soon. Better to start early, I say.

[DonRotolo]

We're completely done, and it's already in the crate . And if you believe that, I have this cool bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you...

We're essentially final on the chassis & drive system, parts ordered, some assembly is starting. Still some room for tweaking.

We've god good ideas for the manipulator, but nothing firm yet.

I'd put us a 2 days behind at the moment, not great for 4 days into the season...

Don

[Madison]

Originally Posted by Don Rotolo

We're completely done, and it's already in the crate . And if you believe that, I have this cool bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you...

I have a bridge in Brooklyn, too. Where's yours?

we had a meeting saturday after kickoff, and pretty much evaluated everything and decided what we wanted our robot to do. since then we've completely rethought the idea maybe twice, but still came out pretty much the same design. our chassis is laid out, and we're doing some prototyping for our manipulators. our programmer has done as much as he can already, and even has the drive code pretty much written, and we're just waiting for parts to build the drive train, hopefully done by the weekend but unlikely, so he can make that work

we already received things from mcmaster, and our things from andymark were back ordered, so they'll get here tomorrow hopefully, and apparently some other things somehow got caught up at the customs office, so they won't get here till next week.

compared to last year, we're at least a full week ahead, if not two weeks. However, since we our parts aren't here yet, we've resorted to dis-assembling an older robot to make it into a cart