how many teams are driving now?

[Sachiel7]

I apologize for what John said - Even though we are driving, we are still working on everything else. Since he isn't on the electrical or programming he doesn't actually know what we are able to do...he knows that the wheels move and automatically thinks that our robot is better that everybody elses, but I'm pretty sure its not. Good design or not we're still behind schedule...

Dah, that's ok. I know what it's like to have fellow members like that
I'm glad to hear that another VCU team is up and running.
Hope to see you there!

[Jonathanb]

1037 SCREAM is RUNNING!!!! and we have two dual-motor dual speed transmissions whoowhooooo

[kjohnson]

Originally Posted by Levaman

To all teams that think they are doing good: Team 616 is up and running. By the time the last person leaves to day, we will probably being doing a decent but shaky auton mode.
Everyone thinks they did good to be running and driving early with no subsystems. That's you first mistake. In a few minutes, we will be ahead of everyone in the NASA Langely VCU Regional.

Good Luck. You will all need it.

I apologize for what John said - Even though we are driving, we are still working on everything else. Since he isn't on the electrical or programming he doesn't actually know what we are able to do...he knows that the wheels move and automatically thinks that our robot is better that everybody elses, but I'm pretty sure its not. Good design or not we're still behind schedule...

[Noah Melamed]

Team 637 wheels are ready to go.... they just dont have any power . I'll be up early tommrow(sunday) to get down to the shop and plug everything in. Best case senario tommrow night well have a driving pneumatic pumping robot with only 1 of 3 subsystems not attached. Good job to all those teams driving and good luck to all the teams still workign there way there.

[Argoth]

Team 1255 got our bot fully opperational yeterday. The drill motor cradle was giving us many problems but we stayed late and got it all worked out.

[greencactus3]

drive? we just got our BIG aluminum skateboard done. with 12in pneumatic tires, and i heard its supposed to be electrically driven, but at this rate, not for a while...

[Wacko324]

I am so happy to say that yesterday we did get our robot driving. Though I only got to play with it for a little because I had to go and our mentor was had to take the motors to modify the clutch so it doesn't. Hopefully after President's day we will finishing off the last of our subsystems and be done.

[Matt Adams]

We've been driving for about 3 or 4 days now. We're starting to hit the chassis up against things and start breaking things early so we can fix them. We just finished up one of our primary mechanisms, and we'll be shooting to get the others assembled in the next few days.

We've come to discover that the moral booster is HUGE when you have a box running around, so we try to get that done by end of week three each year... we got it done about middle of week three. Close enough for me.

Good luck everybody!

Matt

[KevinB]

We've been driving for about a week and a half now .... we determined that our original wheels weren't gonna work .... now we're waiting on new wheels.

[MasterSnow]

Team 1057's robot moved for the first time today...although we are using the 2003 edurobot controller to do it . It was very high performance, however.

[Veselin Kolev]

Battle Cruiser Operational.
MVRT, over and out.

[pras870]

I know 870 could of easily moved today, all we had to do was slap a battery in, put the chains back on, and it would of been driving everywhere. But of course, working from 9am-5pm, and the adminstrator making about a 45 minute drive to go see his little girl, we simply didn't feel like it! hehe

[sanddrag]

I posted our progress here:
http://chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?p=218534

[KenWittlief]

Team 578 Fairport/Gleason

Robot is online and functioning within normal parameters

Drivetrain is smooth as butter

Auton closed loop internal navigation system takes the robot where we tell it to go

but the most important thing of all, our robot is so CUTE!

[Crop-Circles]

We've been moving for weeks now, but we still don't have any of our ridiculous number of "articulating masts" running yet. Most of the problems with the drivetrain have been worked out and programming is coming along nicley. So until we figure out what unforseen disaster will strike us this year, all is well!