Team Blog
This is a place for team members to post their thoughts and document the team's efforts. But reader beware: some team members have a rather odd sense of humor, so everything should be taken with a grain of salt.
"Time flies when you're not having a lot of fun and are severely behind schedule."
-Alex Bratchie
To put it simply, we are entering Week 5 without a drivable robot. To put it with a simile, we entering Week 5 like a guppy entering a barracuda's mouth: weak, tired, and defeated, but with enough defiance left to try to give the barracuda mercury poisoning.
The build team is behind schedule. Badly. I've heard that there is good chance we may only have a box with wheels (a.k.a.
Brave
Little
Toaster). This would be most embarrassing, considering, that we have functioning mecanum wheels on our robot, and mecanum wheels are supposed to be demonstrative of a team's superior skill, experience, and ability to adapt to new situations. Unfortunately, we are behind schedule, so it seems that for us, mecanum wheels have instead acted as a catalyst of suffering and destruction.
But on the bright side, the chassis has been finished and is in the process of being wired up. Happy, happy.
But, now again for the bad news. It seems we have a bit of a zombie apocalypse on our hands: the engineers we metaphorically shot came back from the dead. And to make matters worse, they are
engineering. Seriously, someone needs to headshot these zombies before their engineering gets out of hand. We've already come up with dozens of kicker designs; we don't need more designs, we need a kicker built. So, all you zombie engineers need to either go back to your metaphorical graves or magically convert yourselves into zombie builders. If you don't, I will metaphorically headshot you (i.e. post a scathing blog entry and glower at you).
~ Posted by Alex B. on Sunday, February 7th, 2010 @ 9:30 pm
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