I am challenging our FRC team to build a rolling chassis in one. I KNOW our electrical guys can get it wired in under 2 hrs. And programming, well, thats going to be the hard part. Besides, I know teams that built their robots AT Championship a couple years back. 
It is doable.
Do you mean a square bot done in one day or a bot with a whole bunch of stuff?
Im not sure what the Championship team did but I am talking square bot for our team, though I may challenge them to do a Mecanum in case we decide to do that this year.
I believe the team at championships did a square box, using spare parts from other teams, along with theirs.
So I guess it is technically possible.
our team i belive have pit a square bot together in one day. is that a big deal?
Not really, like I said, its doable.
We got ours!! It said we would get ours on Saturday. I figured FedEx would be cutting back and not make deliveries on Saturdays. We were all at a district Lego tourney, our son who was a judge beat us home. Imagine our suprise when we walked in the door and seen him sitting on the floor surrounded by several boxes and the biggest smile on his face!!!
BTW The White Wolves Lego Team of The G.R.A.Y.T. Leviathons has made it to the State Championship!!!
We have our bot driving!!! I will get the pics up asap. I will tell you ahead of time that it is a mess because the robots motors and sensors are all hidden, so there is pwm running all over the place. I ran into one problem, which was the digital sidecar not getting any power, and it was plugged in. I moved it to another slot in the fuse panel and it worked just fine. I do think it may have been my fault for sticking the wire too far into the wago connector and having the insulation touch instead of the copper.
One question though… how are you supposed to supply power to the gaming router thing on the bot. It did not come with a connector that goes from the fuse panel to the router, only a 120v power supply. Am i just supposed to hack into the wire and cut it, or am i supposed to have one come in the kit?
Cut off the end and connect it to the PD Board.
here are the pics of the progress so far. Its driving:D , but needs to be cleaned up and programmed… also have to hook up the encoders, limit switches, and compressor.
http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc160/samir13k/sidewinder2.jpghttp://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc160/samir13k/sidewinder3.jpghttp://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc160/samir13k/sidewinder4.jpghttp://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc160/samir13k/sidewinder5-1.jpg
If you notice, the speed controllers and spikes dont fit in the old electrical panel area, so they are now located in the back of the bot. (pic 3)
We have ours up and running as well. I will try to get pics or maybe video possibly. We had some issues with the sidecar as well and with the wireless. We got it fixed though. Good luck everybody and Happy Thanksgiving!
Hey,
My team signed up for early shipment but hasn’t received an email yet. Have other teams not gotten emails either, or did we make a mistake in registration somewhere?
They are also shipping units until the 5th of Dec, so you still have time. I’d check with your TIMS “shipping Contact.” I would also double check all my info in TIMS. If that’s correct, I’d be making polite inquiries to FIRST.
No tracking number as of 6 hours ago at our meeting. 
Hopefully it will arrive before our next meeting next Monday!
Wetzel
You get it in the order of who paid first. We were paid on Oct. 24th and got our system on Nov. 22nd. I hope that gives you some indication as to when you will get yours.
No tracking number for 1712 as of this post … hoping we see something soon as well. I’ve corresponded with team support twice - they couldn’t really tell me anything other than there are other teams that haven’t gotten it and that if there was some sort of problem they’d inform me. So I suppose we’re in the queue somewhere.
We didn’t receive notification of the shipment until 11:56 last night and its expected delivery date is today, for what it’s worth.
Obviously, we didn’t get a lot of notice.
I sure hope ours ships soon, the suspence is too much. There is only so many times you can read through manual and oogle at the parts check sheet.
crossing fingers that it will ship this week…
Also, 397 has ours, but we have no meetings until next Wednesday. Oh well, I should be working on the mentor’s vex bot anyway…
Ours was picked up at 4:56
Due in Fri sometime …