We decided to put more of our time and effort into our pit area this year, then remember in February about that whole “robot” competition. ooops.
We’re not sure how our robot’s gonna do, but we’re hoping to do well in the cart competition.
Andy Baker - our engineer Steve said this year should be a wash, you might win the “robot” part of the competition (down people…between 45 and 254 - not judging any other robots here:) ), but we think our cart can take yours!
We actually put even more work into our pit area (cart and tool organizer/crate) this year.
Since we work year round now - that makes 6 weeks to build the robot and 46 to build other stuff.
As of last summer, we work year round. A couple of people from the team in 2002 consistantly worked over the summer, including myself. We worked on old robots, moved into a new lab, modified the 2001 robot for the 02 game by putting a ball mechanism on it and competed with it at the Cal Games, an offseason competition. We also helped The Milpitas Team (1120) build a robot to compete with at the Cal Games. I think they are the first team to compete in an offseason competition without having compted in the previous year’s FIRST competition.
We’re not sure how our robot’s gonna do, but we’re hoping to do well in the cart competition.
Andy Baker - our engineer Steve said this year should be a wash, you might win the “robot” part of the competition (down people…between 45 and 254 - not judging any other robots here:) ), but we think our cart can take yours!
haha
We are hoping to get ours ready for St. Louis on either Monday or Tuesday. Hopefully i can get another picture up.
