1726 progress - week 4

[Doug Leppard]

Originally Posted by 45Auto

I guess once the games start we'll find out who was right, the teams who concentrated on shooting or the ones who concentrated on traction control - we're going to be with 1726 on the "shooting" side!

When my son and I went to an MIT recruiting time when he was applying to MIT someone asked this question "Should I get As for grades or should I take AP classes? Do one or the other?" The MIT recruiter said "Do both."

If you want to be at the top of Lunacy do both well. In my estimation the top teams will have excellent driving ability and excellent shooting. Do both well to make it to the top.

We are doing both. We have two software teams, one doing traction and one doing shooting. If I could only do one well, it would be shooting.

[MrForbes]

We are planning on working on traction control too, we just haven't gotten there...hopefully Doug's words will be taken to heart by our programmers, and they'll get the encoders wired up and get working on implementing traction control by the end of the week. We have done only a little driving on the FRP with the trailer attached...need to find more carpet and buy more FRP as we only have an 8 by 12 area which is just too small to do anything. We also need to build a dummy trailer to tow behind the robot while towing the "real" one behind another robot....

So much to do, so little time, and that's when we're ahead of schedule!