Well we’re into week 2 now, where’s your robot?
This’ll be just a quickie poll that I’ll be try to be posting weekly until ship date just to get a general idea of where things in general are. Do teams strictly adhere to the FIRST suggested schedule, or do they daydream for the first 4 weeks, panic, and slap something together in the last 2? I’ve kind of been curious about this. So please, enlighten me.
(Ignore error in poll)
umm still in a box and im not talking about the shipping crate =)
Some of our robot is in the heads of each of the team members. A good portion of it is on the heardrive of my computer. A couple parts of it are in Indiana at AndyMark. 
Some of the parts are over in Florida at Small Parts. Some of the parts are up in northern California at Robot Marketplace. A few more parts are down in LA at McMaster. And some of the metal is right in our very own shop.
Parts ordering starts Wednesday night. Fabrication starts beginning of week 3.
… on the paper that is on my desk infront of me. 
:: opens inventor::
From what I here from those gearheads down in Chandler, our robot is currently on a drawing table of some sort. I don’t know why they would put it there, but it’s not my place to judge.
Traditionally (a tradition I helped found :)) our team does dream for at least the first three weeks, working on wooden prototypes of arm designs and chasses. The build process is a gradual one from weeks 4 to 5 of having enough robot built to test the mechanical components and spin the wheels some, and then lots of all nighters during week 6 to secure the wiring and get everything to fit inside that stupid box!
Hopefully since we’re now an experienced team we’ll have a better build schedule this season. ::crosses fingers::
Cool thread idea!
Far enough to suprise 
At the moment, Occam’s Razor (the new hotness from 1293) has the frame and transmissions (both kitbot) assembled and mounted. The current holdup is our traction device, which we should be settling upon tomorrow night.
I can’t wait to take a crack at this new IFI breaker panel.
Robot what robot? :ahh: :ahh: :ahh:
jk
Surprisingly we have the frame of the robot about 95% of the way done… We
are just waiting for some parts to shipped to us… (tires, sprockets, bearings)
you know stuff we should of ordered a few days ago… but with our luck we are
going to find some fatal flaw in our design and fall behind like we normally do…
Im hoping that we can have our robot driving under power in a few days crossing fingers
We have our frame built completely and our arm structure completed. In order to make it expend and retract requires 3 holes and appropriate bolts. However, we have a lot of parts to order, wheels, shaft, sprockets, some pneumatics, a lot of stuff…but we’re on schedule so…we should be done middle of week 3.
the base is coming good… the arm (if we have one or maybe two) is still in the heads of many… slow starts for TJ… but we will pick up pace soon…
The robot chassis is still on a bunch of scratch paper :ahh:
We built the kit bot w/tranny and are developing the basic program. We have a camera that will pan, track and recognize colors.
Wayne Doenges
CAD Mentor
Is it bad not to have any of the actual parts ordered or started to be built yet? Would that classify us as behind? If we did not cut any metal until Sunday, would that make us behind?
In Inventor: Gearbox design is done, chassis is half way, arm is just started. Is this behind?
part of it … not all of it but some of it… is kinda on paper somewhere but mostly on the board … so i say robot… what robot… :ahh:
I am losing sleep over hw behind we are … we are just having trouble reaching a design everyone can agree on. But in 12 hours we will have the design finalized, I hope . Please? :o
Team 123, Cosmos, Hamtramck, MI: We have our transmissions and motors mounted. Just gotta do wiring, add a couple sprockets, and then build our design to manipulate the tetras. We’re 2 weeks ahead then we’ve ever been my teacher told me Usually, at this time we’d be building transmissions.
So far we’ve gotten our chassis/gearboxes in inventor and our manipulator design on pieces of paper all over the place. We should start cutting and putting things together this Wednesday. Are we behind? I’m not sure yet. We have almost everything designed this year before we start building. This should eliminate most of the, “I wonder where this should mount?” or “Hmm…where should we put the battery?” This year our design is a bit more ambitious than previous years but if all goes well I think we are going to be a major competitor (nothing wrong with a little optimism ). Look out for us at Peachtree, Boilermaker and the Champs.
We’ve got 70% of the design drafted in inventor, the rest on paper. Still finalizing the CAD end…
We have our Transmission and Chassis complete (kitbot) and we’ve just got the controls and arm left. Whew, we’re running ahead of our schedule!
BTW, this is our teams first year using inventor, and my first year drafting up the (entire) bot. It’s REALLY helping!
Bottom part of robot (frame, transmission, wheels (new fancy ones), etc.) are mostly completed and we hope to have electronics to put in within a week so we can drive it around (vroom!)
Unfortunatly, arm is still in design phase sigh
I am dismayed at the blatant bias against programmers in the poll. Why is it assumed that the robot must be built before the software can be done? Yesterday we had a program but nothing to run it on, so the software team and electrical team hacked together a simple chassis to test out the vision tracking.
The competition 'bot is being CADded up, and there’s a group putting together the kit chassis for prototyping. But the software is already running and driving (and following green, if a little erratically).
Drive train & electrical components installed, testing underway. Crane/arm prototype built, revisions required. We are using a telescoping arm, but its way to massive. EOC
-Basic idea is up
-claws going through prototyping
-Arm drawn in solid works, ready to be examined and built
-drive train done
-chasse under construction