Week 2: Where's your Robot?

[Cyberguy34000]

Well we're into week 2 now, where's your robot?

This'll be just a quickie poll that I'll be try to be posting weekly until ship date just to get a general idea of where things in general are. Do teams strictly adhere to the FIRST suggested schedule, or do they daydream for the first 4 weeks, panic, and slap something together in the last 2? I've kind of been curious about this. So please, enlighten me.


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[EOC]

Drive train & electrical components installed, testing underway. Crane/arm prototype built, revisions required. We are using a telescoping arm, but its way to massive. EOC

[Anubuss]

-Basic idea is up
-claws going through prototyping
-Arm drawn in solid works, ready to be examined and built
-drive train done
-chasse under construction

[Max Lobovsky]

• Every major part CADded to the point where construction can begin
• Mockup for one crucial, hard to CAD part done
• Parts for almost everything ordered
• Metal should be here today
• Drive train prototype built weeks ago (and luckily, it's pretty appropriate)

[Hershey]

Well...our bot has been planned, made accurate measurements apon, and our chassis is being created and with a rough electronics board. In comparison to last year, our first year, this year's bot is "lightyears away from last year" as our instructor said. As for inventor, we still need a lot of work on that.

[tribotec_ca88]

Well, maybe this will make you feel a bit better: our team hasn´t even RECEIVED our kit yet. <huge sigh> ...it´s out there somewhere, who knows where, but the only thing that matters is that it´s not in our hands...
Based on this...make your own conclusion as to what stage our robot is at !!!

Fortunately there´s other things that can be worked on...worst part is, we´re already a week short!! i hope it won´t take much longer, but all we can do is wait. patiently.

good luck to all teams!!!

[team66t-money]

We are all set bulit field and all we are currently testing drivers and building a play book

[PVCMike]

Kitbot has been modified and built to our specs. Parts are being ordered for the tetra retrival device and the program is being written and tested. the robot will be driveable tonight probly.

[nuggetsyl]

hmmmmm robots oh yea we are stuck on weather to build a 25ft arm or make it into a helicopter

[Wacko324]

Our robot is far from being closed to functioning. The chassis is in pieces, we did put together the kit transmissions. The subsystem design is currently being finisihed. Hopefully by Thursday I will have a little bot scooting around the floor.

[jrocket567]

Our chassis design is done, and has been sitting at the machine shop for the past week..(i dont think well ever get it back).. the arm..now thats a completely different story.. we attempt to get one design somewhat finalized and someone runs in with a 'reality check' or a out-of-the-box idea, that we throw out after 5hrs of discussion...
anyone on 617- NO MORE ARM DESIGNS!!!- or we wouldnt finish it before next years kickoff much less end of Feb!
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[Kyle Love]

We are further along then we were in week one.. ...starting to build basic parts...and we will work from there See you in ATL!

[roboticsguy1988]

Originally Posted by tribotec_ca88

Well, maybe this will make you feel a bit better: our team hasn´t even RECEIVED our kit yet. <huge sigh> ...it´s out there somewhere, who knows where, but the only thing that matters is that it´s not in our hands...
Based on this...make your own conclusion as to what stage our robot is at !!!

Fortunately there´s other things that can be worked on...worst part is, we´re already a week short!! i hope it won´t take much longer, but all we can do is wait. patiently.

good luck to all teams!!!

Have you heard of the team that never received there robot at a competition, and they ended up building a robot in 1 day?? I would say when comparing 5 weeks to 1 day, 5 weeks is a lot better (just trying to make you feel better). However i would be kind of mad to if we didn't have our kit by now.

[Chris Fultz]

We drank a bunch of Mountain Dew on the 9th of January, and just started workin'.

Finished the robot last night about 11 PM.

Picked up by FEDEX at 3 PM today.

On its way to that 'drayage' company now, holding it for the Central Florida Regional in MArch.

Not sure what we will do until the 22nd of February. This has never happened before.

PS - please add another voting button for "SHIPPED!".

[Cyberguy34000]

Originally Posted by Chris Fultz

We drank a bunch of Mountain Dew on the 9th of January, and just started workin'.

Finished the robot last night about 11 PM.

Picked up by FEDEX at 3 PM today.

On its way to that 'drayage' company now, holding it for the Central Florida Regional in MArch.

Not sure what we will do until the 22nd of February. This has never happened before.

PS - please add another voting button for "SHIPPED!".

I'll add that for the week 3 post. Holy crap I didn't expect anyone to get close to something like that . Is it any good? I mean that's three weeks that you could be using exclusively for practice or autonomous programming or something. I'd love to see pics.