My Own Question of the Week

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Posted by Chris Hibner at 02/23/2001 8:17 AM EST


Coach on team #308, Walled Lake Monster, from Walled Lake Schools and TRW Automotive Electronics.



This is a question I've been wanting to ask teams:

How many person-hours does your team spend on only the robot (do not include animation, PR, or other team functions)? Time spent on the robot includes brainstorming, design, build, debug, etc.

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Posted by Chris Hibner at 02/23/2001 8:26 AM EST


Coach on team #308, Walled Lake Monster, from Walled Lake Schools and TRW Automotive Electronics.


In Reply to: My Own Question of the Week
Posted by Chris Hibner on 02/23/2001 8:17 AM EST:



: This is a question I've been wanting to ask teams:

: How many person-hours does your team spend on only the robot (do not include animation, PR, or other team functions)? Time spent on the robot includes brainstorming, design, build, debug, etc.

We've estimated that over our 5 years doing this, we average 1000 person-hours (for engineers) to do the robot. This year was no exception as it came in at almost exactly 1000 hours. For those who aren't familiar, 1000 person-hours is 6 working months for one person working 40 hours per week. This is pretty rough considering we only have 6 engineers working on the robot. I'm just wondering is this typical or not.

-Chris

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Posted by Raul at 02/23/2001 9:05 AM EST


Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Rolling Meadows & Wheeling HS and Motorola.


In Reply to: My Own Question of the Week
Posted by Chris Hibner on 02/23/2001 8:17 AM EST:



I cannot account for the other members of my team. But I did keep a fairly accurate account this year of my own hours from kickoff to shipping:

224 hours in January
214 hours in February (66 just in the last 4 days, and only 1 hour on Feb,22 to make sure it was shipped correctly)

Keep in mind that I still averaged 10 hours a day in my real job during that time, when I did work! I also took 10 days of vacation and typiccally worked 16 or more hours on those days.

My wife was awesome; she was very busy at work herself - my son is on the team, so that helped.

Sorry if I gave you more than you asked for.

Raul

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Posted by Bill Gold at 02/23/2001 11:23 AM EST


Student on team #258 from Lincoln High.


In Reply to: My Own Question of the Week
Posted by Chris Hibner on 02/23/2001 8:17 AM EST:



I kept fairly accurate time records as well. I spent approx. 450 hours working on my team's robot. 70 of those hours were from Friday afternoon through Tuesday morning.


: This is a question I've been wanting to ask teams:

: How many person-hours does your team spend on only the robot (do not include animation, PR, or other team functions)? Time spent on the robot includes brainstorming, design, build, debug, etc.

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Posted by Anton Abaya at 02/23/2001 12:13 PM EST


Coach on team #419, Rambots, from UMass Boston / BC High and NONE AT THE MOMENT! .


In Reply to: My Own Question of the Week
Posted by Chris Hibner on 02/23/2001 8:17 AM EST:



: This is a question I've been wanting to ask teams:

: How many person-hours does your team spend on only the robot (do not include animation, PR, or other team functions)? Time spent on the robot includes brainstorming, design, build, debug, etc.

as soon as i shipped, i only realized then that i had no life. heh

-aa

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Posted by Josh at 02/25/2001 1:04 AM EST


Engineer on team #419, Rambots, from Wentworth Institute of Technology.


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Posted by Anton Abaya on 02/23/2001 12:13 PM EST:



: : This is a question I've been wanting to ask teams:

: : How many person-hours does your team spend on only the robot (do not include animation, PR, or other team functions)? Time spent on the robot includes brainstorming, design, build, debug, etc.

: as soon as i shipped, i only realized then that i had no life. heh

: -aa


Oh come now anton, you realized you had no life the instant you hit #1 on the quake ladder...it's just that the robot was a way for you to meat the rest of us with no lives.

Josh
Team 419
"You will always find something in the last place you look"

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Posted by Tom at 02/24/2001 2:18 AM EST


Other on team #419 from Umass.


In Reply to: My Own Question of the Week
Posted by Chris Hibner on 02/23/2001 8:17 AM EST:



: This is a question I've been wanting to ask teams:

: How many person-hours does your team spend on only the robot (do not include animation, PR, or other team functions)? Time spent on the robot includes brainstorming, design, build, debug, etc.

I can't find my old friends, they are all pissed and one even changed her #, seemed like i spent all the time with the rob...hell look at all this sleep and study time now...