How Far is Everyone?

[joachimbean]

Far? We're working on mechanical things right now. Our electrical, wiring and programming has the most progress. We still need to get pneumatics (and the MiniBot?) done.

We've been hit with lots of weather issues, and a Power Distribution Board that broke.

[voltage5]

looks good, how does your manipulator work?

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by voltage5

I just wanted to know how far everyone is in the build period.

I'm pretty sure we're at the exact same point everyone else is: Day 35 of 45.

[JDL]

We worked pretty hard tonight. I should say the kids worked pretty hard tonight, the mentors didn't do much. Pretty much the only tools I used tonight was my clamp meter, 11-1 screwdriver and my lineman's pliers.

We have a working arm and grabber, completed and tweaked teleoperated code, 99% wired. They got the mini bot completed too. All that's left pretty much is the deployment system and mount some sensors and the pesky camera and tweak the autonomous code.

Also in some crazy last minute decision we are taking our 2011 bot and t-shirt shooter to a sponsor tomorrow.

[Koko Ed]

The prototype is nearly complete so the drives team will have time to practice with it. The actual robot is well within production and the mini bot is coming along nicely. It goes up the pole so that's a good thing. The animation could be hit or miss to whether it will make the deadline. The Website update is going steady and the Hall of Fame display seems to be ahead of schedule in it's design this yea.
All things considered we are doing pretty well with all the changes we have been going through.