So ai technology can read the manual, build itself legally according to the manual and perform as an actual robot?
+1 on drill templates. Poor alignment on the elevator really burned us last year at the first regional
I canāt find any rules against it, provided the information to build the AI technology was either published prior to kickoff, or developed after it. 
Metal came in Thursday. A fair amount of it was wrong, so that will delay fab a bit.
On top of that, both our metal bandsaws are broken and we had a snow day today, so needless to say weāre working through some things.
And finals for my students are next week so I donāt anticipate the best attendance until next weekend. Itās only week 3 though. Plenty of time to react.
Frames are welded.
Working CAD
We are manufacturing our own parts.
Vision work in progress.
Finals are over.
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CAD:
- Frame finalized
- Bumper supports almost done
- Elevator almost done. Needs pulleys and finalization of gearbox design.
- arm/intake, tbd, start early next week.
- Climber, sart late next week. Room allocated in robot.
- Electrical board has all components laid. Needs lightening pattern.
Design/Protoying
- Chassis finalized, same ratio as off-season bit but w/8 wheel.
- Elevator gearing finalized, 2 stage cascade.
- Intake gearing finalized, still working on hatch pickup prototype.
- Arm/wrist gearing tbd, 4 bar prototype complete. 2D sketch looks good.
- Climber gearing tbd, conceptualized idea.
Protobot:
- Chassis has been mechanically and electrically done since Tuesday, w/jank electrical board. Has encoders and temporary wheels.
- Getting new sexy unlightend electrical board on Monday.
- Elevator gussets and frame getting machined on Monday and Tuesday next week.
- Software has had it for a few days to deploy 2019 code. Driving around just fine.
Comp Bot:
- Chassis is mechanically done, waiting on WCP Pnuematic wheels.
- Electrical board in assembly.
- Hoping to deliver to Software on Tuesday so Protobot can have elevator mounted this week.
Logistics:
- Ordering elevator components on Monday
- Holy moly do we need more bearings!
Overall looking good. Slightly behind proposed schedule, but it was an aggressive schedule. The schedule factors in custody of robot (mechanical, electrical, software) which has been a huge help in planning.
P.S. Our CNC router is awesome. Weāve been able to machine our frame rails, gussets, and even VersaBlocks ourself. Havenāt had to outsource a single part yet! Canāt wait till we get our Box and Pan Brake in; not being able to make bent brackets for mounting things is hard!
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We at 1646 have complete the practice bot chassis, CAD for the cargo mechanism, and all parts read to build those two things for the comp bot. Finishing up CAD for the hatch mechanism this week. Electrical is currently finishing the electrical board for the comp bot. As for programming, we have vision up and running, and just about to finish tuning drive PIDās (thank you tech for finally getting the right 3d printed piece for the encoders). First drive practice starts Monday, and hope to have a ācompletedā robot by week 4, not including multiple design iterations and programming improvements.
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Not far enough.
We started cutting parts already but small details in CAD are almost done. This robot has a lot of integrated mechanisms requiring nearly a complete modeled robot before we can get too deep in fabrication. We are waiting on parts and aluminum to come in but are hoping to have atleast the drivetrain running next weekend.
Same but 6th year. Good luck this season!
We donāt have a chassis, and are stuck in the prototype stage for most of the grabber and lift portions. Oh, and the vision code freezes after 3 seconds (cuz itās eating up RAM for some reason), and we have a pneumatics system that refuses to run the compressor. Other than that, itās going along great! 
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Swell
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everyone is arguing and no one is stepping up to do anything so weāre not very far along sadly
(Update):We just decided (Jan 10th at 3:27)
Well, judging from our 2018 weekly build vlogs, we are about ~2 weeks ahead from this time last year.
HAHA actually same, we have an epic intake(totally an original not stolen from 254 in 2016) and a great shooter (totally not stolen from our team in 2016) and a good hatch mechanism
We have finished designing everything except what we call a ākickerā that will launch the cargo out. (We will have a handoff style intake where the intake roller is attached to the chassis and it sucks the ball into a claw that is on our elevator.)
We have the drivetrain and most of our cascading elevator built. We also have our hatch panel mechanism completely built and programmed. We hope to have the robot finished being built this Saturday, with the following week for coding, testing, and iterating, followed by 2+ weeks of driver practice and a little bit of adjusting to our vision code.
Letās just hope there is no snow
Behind. But weāre always behind until it wins itās first banner. Then itās still not good enough.
This is me being optimistic. Im a joy at parties.
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Not very far, unfortunatelyā¦ We are hoping to prototype and start our main build by this weekend! Woo!.. Yikesā¦ All the feels
Weāre proceeding nominally. Had an issue with one of the transmissions that cost us some time but weāre back on course and canāt wait to see what comes of our robot!
With the exception of waiting for a gearbox to ship out, we should be done with our practice robot on Saturday, and about 30% done with the competition robot. The team is really impressing me with their progress so far this season!
It probably helps that this is the first season since we started doing this that we havenāt had any significant snow in the first 3 weeks of build! Usually by this point weāve missed at least 1 meeting due to snow, if not moreā¦
Each individual major assembly is CADed and is either being built or having parts made for it. Coders are working on deep learning with vision processing, coding our new NEO swerve, and working with gyros to auto level while climbing, and weāve almost completed our practice field. Chairmanās Award essay is at 9996 characters, Entrepreneurship Award resources are at 2 3/4 pages, and Woodie Flowers is at 2907 characters. We have never been this well off at this point of the build season before.