We’re not driving yet. It’s taking sooooo long to machine!!! Ahhhh! How late are we if we’re not driving yet by this weekend?
-anton
We had a prototype a while back but our actualy chasis wont move until wednesday or thursday… cry
but man that prototype was fun 
My team doesn’t seem to realize how important it is to get things done quickly. I know that this is hard to believe (and I am very unhappy), but our team hasn’t even STARTED to build the robot! We’ve only got a prototype, and even then it’s mostly just some wood with wheels, motors, and the control system. We’re doomed! 
Not only that, but no one else realizes the importance of meeting over the week. The only time we meet during the week is on Wednesdays at lunch during school (not a good idea because nothing really gets done), and after school on Fridays (sometimes). Also, we only meet about once on the weekend! I seem to be the only one (except for the adults) who realizes that we are in HUGE trouble. I hope that I’m the president next year. I would try to make sure people are better prepared. If the saying: “You learn from your mistakes,” were applied here, I’d be the world’s smartest person. But even if that were true, I still wouldn’t know what we are going to do now.
We were supposed to be driving by yesterday, but we had the little incident with someone’s bad calculations, and the parts for our new wheel mounts haven’t arrived yet.
We do not have a mobile base yet either although the chassis and other items are coming together. Machining, errors and part shrtages are killing us…
Our robot rolls… but just on casters (for now) 
We’ve had prototypes rolling on last year’s drivetrain for a while, but as for this year’s robot, just as Bill said, casters…
:rolleyes:
Alex, you better get on your teammates to start getting serious.
We were a rookie team last year and we worked on the bot every day after school, Saturdays and Sundays. We had our bot done with about three days to spare for practice and adjustments.
If the kids don’t care about the robot than the engineers will loose interest. I know I would.
Talking about the robot doesn’t get it built.
Wayne Doenges
BTW we don’t have a moving robot. yet, but we are real close to having everything built.
we were driving our experimental chassis as of three days ago- we are just wainting for parts to come back from our wonderful machinist people
dahl
it better than bad its good-log!
Which one of our robot would you like to know that we’re driving. We’re actually driving both, very well might I add. We’re gonna win. Hahaha. See ya.
we’ve had our prototype driving for about two weeks and the kids have been practicing with the drivetrain and rollers now for a week. we’re way ahead in that department though and it’s mostly a product of luck and extra hard work by a few of us with a lesser amount of credits. we all go to school full time, most are taking 17 or 18 creds, but we have 24 hour shop access and a waterjet cutter so we can rip parts in minutes instead of hours or days. good luck to everyone.
Anthony Lapp
team 221 ----> now 857
Well, our chasis was just completed yesterday so we “attached” an experimental drive train to it (with C clamps ) and drove it. It only went for 2.08 seconds though.
We have a pretty cool prototype and chassis. our actual bot has yet to come. being a rookie member, I have no idea if we are behind schedule.
Well, we don’t yet have our rolling bits and pieces, so we’re not moving around - but, we do have our chassis completed and will have most of the control hardware mounted by tomorrow. Then, it just becomes a matter of dropping the drive train into place (and hoping it works!!!)
There’s also the little matter of my forgetting to order roller chain. So, right now, we’re counting on the wind produced by the muffin fans as propulsion
Our base is up and running, but we still are behind schedule (not that we are ever ahead of schedule). We have only two of the motors running but all looks good.
We ran on Saturday and noticed some flex in one of the drivetrain gearboxes, worked till 10 last night for reinforcement now thats fixed. Next problem, the power is ruining the wheels fast enough that there was rubber bits all over the field. To all who haven’t found out: Moving a goal is really quite easy forward and back. Rotating a goal out in front of you takes an incredible amount of traction if the goal is at a standing stop. We have no problems once on the move. There is going to be such a fine line this year between maximum power/traction and carpet destruction it isn’t even funny. I thought we had the balance but back to the lab for something else for traction. One good note is this is the first time we were driving before week 5 so there actually is time to fix it before shipping it, what a novel idea.
Good luck to everyone:)
Well define running… We have a moving base, a really nifty frame, however they’re not connected as of yet. Our drive train is being completed, and the rest of it is coming together, but since we have a base, we’re driving.
We have enough to drive, and we were towing the goal last night… but we definitly have a lot of refining to do
I see there is alot of robots not even moving yet.
I would think that would be the first thing you get up and running by now.
Our robot has been up and running for almost two weeks. this is how we can find out if we can pull or push many goals. without this knowlege you are pretty far behind.
Our task at hand is all the other things the robot has to do.
1st get base running
2nd look at how to pull or push goal?
3rd look at how to pick up ball?
4th look at how to pick up robots?
5th Look at how to score in both end zones?
Finished 1,2,3
we are now working on the 4th thing
I just have to say you only have 3 weeks left use it wisely
isn’t modules great.
Our robot has actually been driving since a couple days after the kick_off.