How far are teams right now? Behind Schedual?

[Mike Martus]

Our problem now is that the students are getting tired of driving the finished robot..........


YEAH RIGHT!

[cziggy343]

yeah... we are prototyping our gripper, and have most of our base done... so we aren't doing terrible, but we aren't where we would like to be...

[beemgruem]

Now we are driving our robot It was so funny One of the main guys came and told us to go to the shop, because we cannot test our robots upstairs. But the main thing is there is no place that has carpet except the hall way Anyway they will get used to

Prototyping is still going on, we are almost done. (We have a break tomorrow this is the first break after the kickoff)On wednesday probably we will be done with our prototype and attach it on the chassis.. It will be cool!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!I loVE FRC!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Éowyn]

I think we're doing pretty well . . . but I will never, ever say that "we are ahead of schedule." It's a curse.

[Otaku]

we're doing pretty well. Leanred how to use the lathe today (woot), got parts ready for bot #2 and we're advancing bot #1, gonna get some aluminium stock and a new vise soon, can't wait.

[GVDrummer]

The robot is now built, and has been handed over to the electrical team to mount all the victors and electrical components. Things are farther along then last year now.

[TJ4nier]

We are pretty far behind where /I/ think our team should be. I thought we would at least have our chassis constructed by now, but as it turns out, the design is more complicated than anticipated. Our drivetrain also takes some doing. Also, the rest of our team is fairly new, so everyone needs to learn how to program and set up electrical work pretty quick. But we're getting there...I think the electrical people and the programmers are waiting for us mechanical people to finish modifying our sketch and make up our friggin' minds on something.

[The_Laughing_ManMII]

team 1361 has been behind schedule, we were behind shcedule before we went to kickoff.

[858member]

Our robot is now in the wiring stage of development. We should be driving and programming next week (1/27/08 - 2/2/08).

[DarkFlame145]

- Chassis 90% done
- Lift in the middle of assemblyman
- Hurdler device design is final and can start being fabed
- grabber is still in the mind of one of our mentors
- Herder is 75% - 85% done
- electrical is just ab out done
- pneumatics's haven't been started
- OI deck is in design
- autonomous mode is just about debugged
- the rest of the code has barely been started

We are just a little over 33% of the way though build season and our bot is 32% (according to out time tables) done. Things will come together very quickly, but we have a lot of work until that happens.

[Andy L]

1458 is a little behind this year, we made a bad decision in rushing our base and the corners aren't square even though i've been looking at it pretty much all day today confused on what's wrong. Our manipulator is protoed and we're working on our lifter to lift the manipulator.

[synth3tk]

We have the drivetrain ready, but there was a slight glitch in the rack-and-pinion (I think that's it) steering system. Should be done on Friday.

OI has been determined and is in production alongside the robot. It's unique, that's for certain.

Programmers are still waiting on at least a basic chassis, which when they do have one can start working on code. Two of the three are learning during the build, so they can have something to do. The drivers will start practicing at this point. Then the engineers/builders will continue working on the manipulator.

All-in-all I'd say that we are a tad bit behind schedule, but not too far.

[lukevanoort]

We are about a week behind schedule. We got our base driving today, but we were hoping to do that last weekend. Our chain tensioners still aren't done, but the base is drivable. The goal is still finishing by the end of week four and it is still achievable (the manipulator shouldn't take longer than the base did); however, we'll have to work real fast on the weekends to pull it off. We found some time to mess with one of the crappy, white KoP joysticks and I think we may have it near a CH flightstick in quality of feel. The pots are still lower quality, but at least the stick feels better. Unfortunately, I messed up on my wiring of the shifting switch, which was discovered only after it was epoxied in, so I'll have to redo the mods to a different joystick.

[BanksKid]

Originally Posted by GVDrummer

Our team has gone threw about 3 complete robot designs and finally last night parts started to get order. Other then that, we have been doing alot of training, but the build season is going to really kicking off for us next monday and have a running chassis hopefully by a week from friday.

Do alot of teams have there chassis and electrical boards done?

Programming Working on Hybrid Mode?

Chassis built or designed?

we're about at the same stage...eventhough it seems like we only have five days left and i know for a fack that i am running the risk of a heart attack because of it.

[Bleak]

Our robots is coming together in pieces. we have an electical board and chasis but not drive train or steering or anything for an arm. we just this past week decided on or arm design and drive style. i guess thats about the same as everyone else but it seems like were really far behind schedule