5th week update. Our HOSTBOT is looking good.
Video: Hanging a Logo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJGRSgP0HCg
We got it all back together after taking it apart for paint. This week we have the little claw arm working along with the elevator, and with some tweaking and driving practice we are looking forward to some good games.
Got to get our minibot deployment mechanism finalized, our side panels on, and finish up a bunch of little tuning things. Good luck everyone!
Looks good! Can’t wait to see it in action at Bayou.
this looks really good, cant wait to compete with yall this year. i expect a fun regional!
It looked like your driver was having a little bit of trouble lining up with the goal. He was always trying to edge closer, but ended up moving one side forward and the other.
I’m in no way dissing your driver, but it seems like his driving style would be much stronger if you were to implement the arcade style drive.
Just a suggestion,
Sunny
Thanks for the suggestion, we’ll keep it in mind. I guess I should have prefaced my post with the fact that was the first time we had tried lining it up and driving it in its final configuration. I cut out the audio, but we were also experimenting on whether it was easier to line up in low or high gear. 
Either way, having a week to practice will improve things, and we are also going to have the line followers capable of use during teleop in our code, so that may help the students line up. That video was also before we had the PID loop working on our elevator and it was all manual at that point. We have an automatic elevator now.
Should have a video up just prior to ship date with the robot after a week of tuning. Good luck everyone.
What’s interesting to note is the obvious increase in driver confidence, just within the first 1:30 of the video. Get some more practice and you guys will be solid contenders!
I’d suggest making some mock lanes on the opposite side of the field. Put up that 12" wall with it too. Get someone to throw a tube, then get the driver to navigate to it. Pickup from the lane wasn’t what we thought it would be, but it’s nothing that hasn’t been overcome either.
Nice robot 2992! Can’t wait to see you guys at Bayou, it looks stacked this year.