Survey - When do you expect to have your robot complete?

[Steve W]

This survey is to see how good you are at figuring out your complete date and to get a consensus of when other teams plan on completeing their robot. Please feel free to follow up with your success dates.

[Camerzn]

We plan to finish early. Murphy's law therefore dictates that we will be drilling holes in the chassis to make the weight limit at the end of the first day of Regionals.

[Bharat Nain]

We would expect our bot to be done by Week 5, but usually its about a day or two before shipping and then the ever-famous "all nite programmin' n driva trainin'" is done.

[Billfred]

Dreamland: Week 4.
Realistically: Week 5
If something screws up: Week 6

[Ryan M.]

Originally Posted by Billfred

Dreamland: Week 4.
Realistically: Week 5
If something screws up: Week 6

Which something always does... at least twice. I'm having to go with last minute changes...

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Complete!?! You guys actually finish? "It ain't over till the fat lady sings!" I haven't heard any music yet. That sound you hear is a student on the mechanical team trying to get out of the shipping crate you closed too early.

[NoodleKnight]

Our build schedule always say that we would finish something by week for, and have week 5-6 for debugging and practice, but well, we never make the deadline. Good thing we still got Thursday.

[Dorienne]

Our team is organized, but it all depends on the season, game, and what types of things we are trying to do in the game. Like, last year, we tried to do everything except the bar. We try to get our robot done before PlayDate in DC, which is at the National Building Museum. Fun!

[Mike]

Originally Posted by Bharat Nain

ever-famous "all nite programmin' n driva trainin'"

Am I the only one looking forward to that? Bring on the dangerously high levels of caffeine!

[Embok]

Time to bump up this rather old topic. The Robot is essentially done, and autonomous is good shape, I was looking forward to the all-nighter Of course we still have to tweak the numbers, which may take a while. Anyways, how did your predictions turn out?

[cdawzrd]

We are still working on the robot :-( as always... We still have to perfect the drive system (we decided on a change...) as well as get our tetra-handler working. Autonomous... now that's another nightmare... At least the arm works very well.

[sirbleedsalot]

We packed up the robot tonight as we do not have school on Monday.

[Dan-o]

so, i think my team has to be put into a slightly different category as far as when we are finished. Our team was not able to start until 1 week into the build season due to school starting dates. We are completely done fabrication, except for a few minor tweeks. (*crap, i just remembered something we didn't have*) Oh well. Anyway, the team has just finally turned the (mostly) completed bot over to the autonomous, and controls team. We are in the process of picking drivers, who will probably get no more than 10 minutes of drive train on the finished bot before shipping. No worries, we have last year's bot for them to practice on. Anyway, it's half way through week 6 and we're almost there (though that's really week 5 for us ) Well good luck teams, and hopefully we will all be able to compete at our best!

[davelu]

this is gonna be our 4th year like this, not finshing the robot week a head before the shipping date. Our driver won't get too much pratice drive now. i guessing monday afternooon. dam our school janitors, why can't they be more kindaful and let us stay their longer in school like until 8 or 9 pm night on a starurday. we had to leafve at like 2:30 pm.

[PVCMike]

we just finneshed fixing all the problems we found at the scrimmage. looks good for 2 more days of autonimous testing and driver practice.