It's ship date! Is YOUR robot ready?

[Michael Corsetto]

Originally Posted by Radical Pi

The date we've all been waiting for and dreading for 6 weeks is upon us. What is the state of your robot?

We spent all of today figuring out constants for code and driving around the robot for practice. Now we have a twisted arm, a broken encoder on our kicker and no closed loop control at all. How bout you?

Congratulations, I always say if you haven't broken your robot, you aren't ready to ship it.

We won't ever be "completed", "done" or anything close. We are pulling the whole electronics board as our allowance and getting camera tracking down to a science in the next 5 weeks before competition. Also some aesthetic covers will be painted and ready to velcro the first day of competition. Even then it wont be close to being done. Never done... never done...

[Andrew Y.]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHA

is it bad that our robot cant kick hang or drive?

[qwertyuiop[]\]

Semi complete. we can drive, our kicker is physically done but mounted in a practice frame for hold back. we dont have a possessor and we cant actually drive due to massive failure of the jags. we took off all of our jags tonight and dont plan on shipping them. were gonna have to choose between victors and jags.

[MrForbes]

worked pretty well until we wired up the new controller. oops

[Pjohn1959]

Originally Posted by squirrel

worked pretty well until we wired up the new controller. oops

Come on Jim...

Don't you know by now that you never use anything new!!!

The broken-in stuff is always better!

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by Pjohn1959

Come on Jim...

Don't you know by now that you never use anything new!!!

The broken-in stuff is always better!

I know....but there are those pesky rules....

And getting students to work on stuff before it's actually needed, is a challenge that sometimes gets the better of me.

[JamesCH95]

Originally Posted by squirrel

And getting students to work on stuff before it's actually needed, is a challenge that sometimes gets the better of me.

+1

[Chris is me]

About an hour before the robot got put in the crate, the gate latch worked and the kicker fired multiple precharge shots at any PSI. A hanging arm was also close enough to get fixed in 8 hours at the event, after adjusting it to not cause rampant safety violations with opening speed. Posession is to be determined. I guess we're alright in terms of done-ness.

[reversed_rocker]

we're all set as far as i can tell. we got a full day before our scrimmage to fine tune everything and practice driving. the scrimmage went well, the only changes we've made were to file down some sharp edges for inspection and to put a patch for the camera feed on the driver station. i'm keeping my fingers crossed that we'll wont have any work to do at the regional

[Phoenix Spud]

Well, we were ready. Then one of our wheels broke (we do have 2 replacements, so we should be OK.) and then one of the bolts that hold the wheels on broke. We have ordered steel bolts to replace the old ones. They should make it to NH before we do. In reality, we are glad that we were able to test Wombot till he broke before we got to GSR. Hopefully, he will be a little bit more robust at the competition.

It is 7 PM Ship Day here now, and we shipped yesterday around noon. I expect that Wombot is getting ready for customs to inspect him. Now we are hoping that the big snow storm in NH doesn't delay him--or us!!!

[Imadapocalypse]

everything goes well until the final night where we finalize autonomous code and SMASH!!! the force of our piston bends our steel kicker in a way none of us thought possible.

[O'Sancheski]

our robot is in its working form... it drives almost perfectly (excluding problems with the chain and tensioners) and even kicks... so a bunch of the team is staying home from school today to practice with the robot before we put it into the crate and ship it off

[Terror Drone]

Yeah, we are basically ready on most fronts. Until our test last night, the motor mounts bend after going over the bump a few times. But, at least it looks like a lion attacking a bear when traversing the bump.

[whcirobotics]

WE ARE NOT READY

please help when we try to run the robot kicker code through developer mode to see how it runs, it gives us error -44085. It says that the C-Rio is wrong revision or version, but we updated the C-rio to the latest one. We also did the update 2.1 but update 1.1 is not happening! i dont know why. Can that be the probelm? or is it something wrong with the code?

Is the kicker Sub vi suppose to run under teleop? or just attached to robootmain in a while loop?

please help its the last day and we are not done AT ALL .. too many experementing :@

[JamesCH95]

Our 'bot just got some wiring and pneumatics neatened up, it can drive, auto-kick, and block (wait, block? what?!) and just got a fresh coat of paint.