how far have you gotten on your robot?

[Madison]

Our prototype chassis should be completed tonight and I hope to finish milling the competition-legal chassis parts by tomorrow night. I'm a bit behind because a dumb error on my part shorted out the CNC machine and it took some time for our electrically inclined people to track down the three fried voltage rectifiers and replace them.

The manipulator design is about 75% complete, I'd say, disregarding the less-important shooting mechanism. The easiest parts are finished -- namely the superstructure -- and it's awaiting motor mounts, belting, pulleys, chain and sprockets. We will likely need to redesign our hopper as well so as to better mate it to this new manipulator.

I flip-flop back and forth between thinking that we're on or ahead of schedule and chastizing myself for working so slowly on finalizing a design.

[spamified88]

Ha ha, that's funny! But, yeah we have gotten some work done. We have design ideas, but we've had lots of fun shooting poofs at people with our prototype What's even funnier is that our advisor is encouraging us to shoot balls at each other! Now that I've gotten way off topic... The animation team has their concept and have started animating, we haven't assembled the vision target, but that's ok because we haven't even assembled the camera yet either. I love my team and our pro-procrastination style

[Eric Scheuing]

We're done :shifty eyes:.

[MrBlack298]

Originally Posted by Eric Scheuing

We're done :shifty eyes:.

Yes shceuing, yes we are.

But seriously, we are working on shooter prototypes. We arent going to have much trouble on the frame and harvester this year, so what we are doing is running three prototyping teams for shooters. We put one together a few days after kickoff and it failed miserably. It was really truly awful. Hopefully these upcoming designs will work far better.

[MrBamboo]

We have prototyped our harvesting mecanism.

Infact we picked up balls smoothly just tonight using the prototype. However our chasis is not near done yet.

[mikeday51]

The chassis will be back from the cnc tomorrow and fully assembled by the end of the week. We have our final shooter mechanism (aluminum) finished as of this morning. Still a ways to go but we're getting there...

[Joe_Widen]

Well, our team has ordered most of the parts we need and plan to order the rest by wednseday. We have a shooter, a archimedes (sp?) screw, a conveyor belt and ball collector prototyped. We're using part of the kitbot chasis too. We need a few belts to get in before we do the drivetrain and we need to get some alum stock for the rest of the chasis, but otherwise, I'd say we are about on schedule.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Our base is done, and painted.

For now, we are waiting for the oh so great Fed-Ex to deliver tons of goodies from McMaster Carr.

The transmission designs are complete, and will start to be machined tomorrow. (Note: All New England teams... run and hide )

Whatever is putting the power to the floor is being machined this week.

Whatever is helping us score points has been loosely designed, and will be finalized and manufactured in the upcoming week and a half.

Programming and driver practice is expected to take >3 weeks.

[Evil Robotics]

After one week team 1245 has a 6 wheel KIT drivetrain almost finished. The programmers can scam and track the green light. The ball launcher prototype made from 8020 and plywood is ready for accuracy testing. All field elements are built.

[Kim Masi]

Originally Posted by MrBlack298

Yes shceuing, yes we are.

But seriously, we are working on shooter prototypes. We arent going to have much trouble on the frame and harvester this year, so what we are doing is running three prototyping teams for shooters. We put one together a few days after kickoff and it failed miserably. It was really truly awful. Hopefully these upcoming designs will work far better.

the funny part is, jack, that we tried another one yesterday and it was even worse than that.

[BRosser314]

Well at the end of the first week our team has succesfully built a chassis that will go over the ramp. Still keeping our low center of gravity we are using a chasis similiar to KOP chassis and a tranny similiar to that of the KOP or if worst comes to worst the KOP tranny is what we will use. We have succesfully mad a ball collection device that picks up balls rather quick. And are shooter is nice we can shoot and have made baskets into a 27" hola hoop. and that was at about 30 feet away. So at the beginning of the second week we are beginning the techinical design and Fabrication. And also we have just found out that we lost one of our sponsors yesturday so we are going to be even better then we have been in the past, we think they were holding us back after the dissapointing last year. Wee have enough talent to design the robot plus we have aa the parts from the kit and previous year. So my prediction for how we are doing is better then we have in the past.

[Eric Scheuing]

Originally Posted by robochik52

the funny part is, jack, that we tried another one yesterday and it was even worse than that.

That was EO's, right? What happened with that?

[Kim Masi]

Originally Posted by Eric Scheuing

That was EO's, right? What happened with that?

umm...there was not enough pressure on the ball, so it only went about 2 feet...literally.

[MrBlack298]

Originally Posted by robochik52

umm...there was not enough pressure on the ball, so it only went about 2 feet...literally.

thats unfortunate. that design looked promising. hoepfully we can modify it saturday.

[Dermot_135]

Done?