Week 2: Where's your Robot?

[imjustmatthew]

As for 638, we're almost done CADing, as per the "requirements" of the game we've developed an arm to lift tetras and a sweet drive train based on the 4 CIMs and the FIRST Gearboxes. We've also begun parts ordering for the chassis and static segment of the arm.

Hopefully with a more experience design and build team this year we'll be able to stick to a solid schedule and get this thing done.

[Denman]

our cadding is seriousl behind sadly, what with our cad leader being off sick since the 2nd day of the xmas holidays and yet to return...

But otherwise we are massively ahead of schedule in relation to our teams history... maybe its b/c we have less experienced people?
last year we had nothing built until the week before because we had too mayn good ideas lol!

[Madison]

Our chassis and associated gearboxes are designed, though construction has yet to start on any final parts. We have prototypes in both full- and small-scale of mechanisms and the entire robot, respectively. I have a good idea of what I'd like to do for the remaining parts that are yet to be designed, but the rest of the team is examining alternate solutions to ensure that we use the simplest, most efficient design possible.

[SpikeZilla2K6]

Our robot is moving along nice and spiffy. All we need to do is throw all our ideas together and BAM!, we have a robot.

[Petey]

Our robot is drawn on paper and partially CAD'd out.

They are deciding the exact mechanisms as we speak.

Last year at this time, we had almost decided we wanted to manipulate balls.

--Petey

[tiffany34990]

well we are in the middle of prototyping about 3 arms and the chassis drawing are complete and we're working on the controls too-- but otherwise we seem to be going well

[AJL930]

Several basic designs are down and hopefully we will have a final design by this weekend and we can get building soon.

[Ellery]

Well for once in 14 years of FIRST our team has actually made a paradigm shift and started building in the first week with a goal of having a completed system done by this Saturday. My goal since I started 6 years ago was no allnighters. I 've spent the first year 3 allnighters straight with my very own hammock at our build site before the ship date. After that my goal was clear.

So hopefully we'll even have driver practice on the robot and maybe have time to build a whole practice bot for spares.

We can only dream I guess but at least we're making the attempt. I head the drives team this year and my subteam has completed the whole thing and actuially driving it last Saturday since everyone wanted to go home and watch football.


Ellery

[DDRAngelKurumi]

Ummm... we have 2 tets, and the chasey built, but we didn't have enough parts to finish the transmission. ^^;;

[UsmanB]

Team 123, Cosmos, Hamtramck, MI: We have our transmissions and motors mounted. Just gotta do wiring, add a couple sprockets, and then build our design to manipulate the tetras. We're 2 weeks ahead then we've ever been my teacher told me Usually, at this time we'd be building transmissions.

[Wayne Doenges]

The robot chassis is still on a bunch of scratch paper
We built the kit bot w/tranny and are developing the basic program. We have a camera that will pan, track and recognize colors.

Wayne Doenges
CAD Mentor

[roboticsguy1988]

Originally Posted by Wayne Doenges

The robot chassis is still on a bunch of scratch paper
We built the kit bot w/tranny and are developing the basic program. We have a camera that will pan, track and recognize colors.

Wayne Doenges
CAD Mentor

He is lying, we had our robot done the same day as the kickoff . lol, ok, i guess he isn't lying.

[Jeff Waegelin]

The CAD work is pretty much done on our base. We have plans for the arm drawn up on paper, and we'll be putting those into CAD during the week. We're going to try to start building the chassis this week or weekend, and start the arm by next week, sometime.

[Goobergunch]

We've built the basic lower frame (okay, so we're using the kitbot). We're still in the process of designing the arm, but have a fairly decent idea of what we want to do. We're also starting to test out the camera.

[Valkyries_698]

Robot what robot?

jk

Surprisingly we have the frame of the robot about 95% of the way done.. We
are just waiting for some parts to shipped to us.. (tires, sprockets, bearings)
you know stuff we should of ordered a few days ago.. but with our luck we are
going to find some fatal flaw in our design and fall behind like we normally do..
Im hoping that we can have our robot driving under power in a few days **crossing fingers**