how far have you gotten on your robot?

[Rick TYler]

As usual, Team 1294 asypmtotically approaches a finished robot.

[EOC]

Our robot is mobile and our launcher is functional; they just are not joined together yet. Our camera works and sometimes tracks the green light.

Team 1208

[sanddrag]

We started making actual parts just yesterday. This scares me, a lot.

[Cactus_Robotics]

Our team is .... well we have a lot to do still but progress has been made. Someone lost our order from skyway, had to reorder, have overnighted, that was Tuesday still haven't seen them. Have a lot of parts at the machine shop but I guess were doing OK based on others comments/stories.

[lukevanoort]

We er... Well. We haven't really gotten very far. We are still debating on how to attach our treading, but it won't really matter until out sprockets (wheel and tranny) come in. The shooter design is done... sorta. The hopper and ball pickup is entirly up in the air. We have a couple of designs for each, but we're divided on which to chosse. So, in a nutshell, we're having a tough year since we have maybe five kids working on the robot and a couple of mentors.

[Eldarion]

Drivetrain...complete
Programming...90% complete
Rest of robot...top secret

[BRosser314]

Our design an dprototyping is done and majority of the parts are being sent to the fabricator and welder. Since we cant do much machining we are having it done for us. We can shoot make it up the ramp and have picked up balls with our prototypes. Hopefully we will get parts tonight and assemble the majority of the drivetrain and out lower construction so our programmers can have fun while we work on the ball collector hopper and shooter. Also we are working on building are cart (well actually fixing and modifing), and our control panel operators controls. My prediction is end of the fourth week at most 5th week. Then practice everyday for the remainderr of ther build season.

[Ian Curtis]

To put this in perspective...

At this time in 2004, my team was sitting around in a computer room, tossing around ideas, after physics of the frictiony ball surfaces made our original one impossible. I think this was also the week where the frame was started in construction, and CADing began.

At this time in 2005, we had a prototype claw, later abandoned for a more effiencent one, a CADed arm which was built and changed drastically in the 72 hours leading to the arrival of the FedEx guy*, and we knew what our drivetrain would look like. Our code master was hard a work trying to get the camera to work, and when he gave up, turned to encoders.

Right now, we have 5 prototypes in the shop, 3 of them fuctional, a sixth recently taken apart for testing purposes. We have the drivetrain to a T, V1 of the frame is constructed, and our electronics board is together. Our much larger than previous years coding team is hard a work, and after a rough start with the camera, is making progress in leaps and bounds. We know exactly what our shooter will look like, and have only one or two refined choices for other systems.

That doesn't mean much though, we're still behind schedule.

*Yes, there's a reason why I said 72 hours instead of 3 days.

[|20807 61|2|_]

My subgroup (ball gathering) is really far behind. We're having major inagration issues with the ball shooting team. Other then that our team is doing pretty well.

[Ben Piecuch]

In order of completion...

Drivetrain:
Gearboxes finishing tomorrow.
Frame finished tomorrow. (8020, bolts together!)
Wheels, pillow blocks, etc... finished tomorrow.
Hopefully a fully working drivetrain by end of the weekend.

Ball Pickup:
Prototyped and designed, going to manufacturing this weekend.
The full collection system should be done middle next week.
All parts in-house, or can be bought locally.

Ball Storage:
Prototyped and mostly designed.
All parts in-house, or can be bought locally.

Shooter:
The shooter itself was prototyped, and failed.
Going with another design while we'll further prototype, later.
The rest of the shooter mechanism is in design.
Much more to prototype before its final configuration.

Programming/Auto/Controls:
Err... This is ALWAYS our downfall.
Mostly, we know what we want to get feedback on, but how we're going to get that feedback is still in the air. In the meantime, we're dealing with resolution issues, and how design some of the mechanical system to work within that resolution. Most sensors in-house, or shall I say, in the KOP. Uhg...

BEN

[LightWaves1636]

Originally Posted by Rickertsen2

So we are now about half way through the build season. How far is your team?

We are running really behind this year. We have a lower frame, alot of parts on order and a bunchload of CAD drawings. We are waiting for a bunch of parts which are being made out of house because we have very limited machine tools.
Hopefully next week we will have a completed drivetrain and launcher.

robot, he he, what robot? today became stress day because we don't even have a working launcher yet.

[Joie]

Welllll... We have a prototype shooter, a frame kindasorta(notreally) built, a design on the way (that will hopefully be finished by this weekend), plenty of idle hands... and a freshman with a broken finger.


Anyone want to trade freshmen?

Edit. A freshman with broken fingers. Plural, people. Gosh.

[DjAlamose]

Well, 279 is about where it always is. We get the drivetrain portion of the robot done quicker than the rest and then add the game objective portion to it.

The drivetrain is coming along, I haven’t taken a look at it in a while but by the sounds of it, we should have a moving machine by tomorrow .

The Game Objective portion of the bot is halfway through the design process. The ball shooter is all designed finally! We are making parts for it tomorrow so expect another teaser. Also the ball collecting portion of the bot is coming along. We should have a final design after tomorrow’s meeting. We had some issues with how fast we wanted things to run, and then we decided that if we moved a ball 48 inches in 1sec that it would be too fast and unnecessary. But we seem to be ahead of where we usually are. Progress is progress .

Electronics/Programming
Have no idea how far they are. They decided to use last year’s code for the cam and it works better I guess. But they don’t have a list of sensors of controls yet so I don’t think there is much they can do .

CAD
Umm I didn’t know we had cad….

Scouting/Spirit
Saving that for the two weeks between build and regionals.

I think that’s it. I truly feel that we are ahead of schedule for once! Besides, who needs driver practice anyways?

[LightWaves1636]

Originally Posted by Joie

Welllll... We have a prototype shooter, a frame kindasorta(notreally) built, a design on the way (that will hopefully be finished by this weekend), plenty of idle hands... and a freshman with a broken finger.


Anyone want to trade freshmen?

Edit. A freshman with broken fingers. Plural, people. Gosh.

he he, uh Reds Robotics doesn't allow freashmen. you have to go through a year and half of eduction in electronics and robotics. Beginning Electronics(resitor, led's, and etc.), Advance Electronics (Demulitiplexer/mulitplexer, binary code, and etc.), and finally robotics(like the bobot but cheaper, make the chassis yourself and give the robot different behaviors according the currant lab give like make it follow the wall, or drive away from the edge, and solve maxes, stuff like that.

[gondorf]

WE GOT OUR ROBOT TO MOVE!!! YAY!!!

unfortunately its first action was to proceed to run me over and try to flatten me.

3 weeks later and only the kitbot works???
i think we are in trouble.