With the primary build nearly complete it has gone well. Eerily well. Perhaps I should not be surprised, as the core of the team are all in their fourth or fifth season and are a very smart bunch. We are not repeating past "learning experiences". Some of the newbies are also showing considerable promise. Anyway, here's the robot one week before we take it to a pre season scrimmage:
FIRST robotics Old Hands will notice that it does not have full bumpers. Just a temporary front bumper needed for intake. And here's the critter in action.......
That's actually quite good when you realize that it takes five mechanisms to get the ball from the floor to an airborne status. I was expected a bottleneck somewhere. Oh, and although we want it to be in good shape for this Saturday's scrimmage we actually have almost a month before it's real Show Time. Should be time to get software fully to work and to add a secondary system - a climber that will lift the robot up off the floor. We have four weeks and about ten pounds of available weight allowance to do this.
Impressive work by the team.
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