Horribly behind??

[Ryan M.]

The only area our team is very behind on is the coding. Our drvetrain is supposed to be ready for some testing tonight. (Well, it supposed to be. We'll see... ) The only coding we've done has been to setup portions of the code as a base for our autonomous functions. Of course, as I'm a programmer geek type, maybe I'm just not aware of other components statuses.

[Aaron Knight]

Originally Posted by Mandy_Candy

Yea... our team (1236) is way behind too... but that was mostly due to 3 snow days! We dont even have a drive train together... but i suppose we'll finish it!

Our team's a lil behind, but we've lost seven days to snow

Syracuse is sittin' at close to 140 inches of snow thus far this winter....and it's only January

[bigqueue]

Originally Posted by Lord Nerdlinger

right now we have nothing done like serously nothing, if you walked into our shop you would see no parts of any robot, i've very worried

is anyone else behind schedule?

Last year we made our robot really quickly but it was shoddy and this year we are trying to make it super quality by designing everything and milling stuff and so forth, but we aren't getting anywhere.

think we should sacrifice the qualityness and just make something that we can ship at the deadline?

Join the club......we are going way over schedule on a number of things. We are talking about all sorts of things, most certainly extra hours...but perhaps cutting back to something do-able.

Ah, the fun of limitted time, limitted manpower and limitted budgets!!!!

-Quentin

[DaBruteForceGuy]

wait, you guys have built stuff already!?!?!? oh crud, um.... what is *behin schedule* defined as at this point in the game anyway?
..... and how can u be behind schedule if you don;t have a definitive schedule in the first place??

[Arefin Bari]

talking about nothing is done... three weeks are gone... we just put together the transmission yesterday (saturday)... we dont meet that often... we get together on thursdays for updates and saturdays to build the robot... so basically we have 6 days to build the robot.

[ScottWolchok]

Originally Posted by expiredzbyte

talking about nothing is done... three weeks are gone... we just put together the transmission yesterday (saturday)... we dont meet that often... we get together on thursdays for updates and saturdays to build the robot... so basically we have 6 days to build the robot.

We haven't built anything yet, but design is close to finishing. However, the rest of the team hasn't been sitting around - animation is cookin, strategy was, of course, done before design started, and controls has been programming and testing using new controller on last year's robot (we know we're using skid steer so we disabled the motor that did the car steering and rewrote the code in C) and writing modular code so we don't have to do EVERYTHING after build. Build team has been working with everyone else and prototyping stuff for design...but we do meet a lot more often than you guys . Keep in mind that this year, a box on wheels and a basketball player aren't all that bad...I guess my point was that you might not be all that behind schedule just because you haven't built anything.

[blindguyinanorg]

we are also behind, instead of focusing on one part of the robot we have done little bits of each. its harder to judge weather or not we will end up with a working robot. we only have 4 - 7 members stay after each day to work, and only 4 are compitent with tools. i do have to say you are not the furthest behind, a school in our area has not even recieved thier parts.