When did you finish your robot? (if at all :)

[Leav]

I voted for the day of shipping.

-Leav

[russell]

Theres no option for "we didnt finish" so I just checked "we were suppposed to have built a robot?". We sort of finished, but the robot still needs several more hours of work, and I will have to manufacture and attach a mount for the camera in the pits too... Should be fun.

[Bcahn836]

We "finished" the on Sunday the day before ship but were still bolting on parts Monday hours before Fedex arrived.

[Yan Wang]

The robot was playing happily on our practice field in the gym on February 12. We then spent the next week tweaking (a lot), reducing weight, making spare parts, testing autonomous, and finishing odds and ends. Going with a full CAD model before construction really speeds things along.

[Ian Curtis]

I'm think we "finished" our robot an hour or so before DoD started. Of course our robot is never really finished.

[DaBruteForceGuy]

hmmm in relation to ship date? ....Negative 5 days

[tiffany34990]

it's never finished...always tweaking to be done....

[Arefin Bari]

Originally Posted by tiffany34990

it's never finished...always tweaking to be done....

she is right... there is always something to work on.. on these FIRST robots. But, We finished on Sunday. The drivers drove around sunday and monday, so they had some practice.

Me: Jim, mechanical team is bored. BREAK THE ROBOT, so we can do something.

Jim: I AM TRYING, I AM TRYING!!!!

[Lisa Perez]

We "finished" a week before ship, did some tweaking, practiced a bit with it, then unintentionally broke it (twice!) and were working on it until Saturday before ship.

We didn't finish by the deadline, unfortunately. We've been working full days this week to get it done so we can hopefully slip it in the day of the regional. Hopefully no one will notice.

Kidding!

[scitobor 617]

There was an on-going joke on my team that we should fill our crate with parts from the KOP and an assortment of tools so that when we arrive Thursday we would go around and ask teams what the challenge is, what FIRST is, and generaly act surprised that the robot needed to built before hand. That would have been fun if our mentors had not insisted on not wasting $5000+ just to be silly.

[Liz C]

Originally Posted by tiffany34990

it's never finished...always tweaking to be done....

exactly, but we were tweaking up until the last minute..so i guesss that qualifies as day of deadline...

[Kris Mackinnon]

Three days before. But it was really the deadline day for us since we couldn't get into the place that we build so we had to be done that Saturday.

[Lazarus (Adam)]

We finished HOURS BEFORE the shipping.

Talk about last minute...

[Validius]

We stacked out first tatra the monday before teh deadline but then we had to take stuff apart cuz parts of the mechanisim would not hold up. (bigger steel bars to hold the pullies)

We still arnt done... we gotta switch out some wheels. As driver i REFUSE to have a caster bot.