The between events rebuild is nearing completion. One week from today it will, once again, be show time. A small but dedicated crew has basically redesigned and rebuilt the main manipulator mechanism. It works quite well. Why, oh why, could they not have figured this out earlier??
This is something like version 5.0. Here's 4.0. Or 4.1, I forget.
It is obviously a smaller, neater mechanism, and is made of 1/8 inch aluminum instead of quarter. This is quite helpful. Last event we were within ounces of the 115 weight limit.
It seems as if the lessons of our first event have been learned. Essentially they are that the real world is not a controlled environment. The rebuilt robot reflect that. It's easier to line things up. It will let you know when it is following an autonomous path by vibrating the control unit. It can grab game pieces pitched out by excited, fallible, teen aged humans with a 90% success rate.
Still a couple of days of tweaking and drive practice, but the end of the 2015 competition season is in sight.
Busy times after that too, more on this going forward.
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