Why is it that people don’t listen to you when you’re right?
I predicted that they wouldn’t be done this week. They all said they’d be done by saturday.
At this point, I don’t think that’s happening.
I know exactly what’s going to happen in the next 3 weeks. I don’t like it. At all.
But there’s nothing I can do to stop it.
Anyway I walk into our shop at like 4:40 and both 2025 and 2026 robots are almost fully disassembled.
The 2025 robot because I told them to disassemble it to make a protobot. But there aren’t enough people to reassemble it. Perhaps it just gets abandoned at this point? Maybe Mentor S was right that we shouldn’t disassemble it…
The 2026 robot because they, idk, something. Probably couldn’t mount something. This isn’t the first time. I don’t think it’ll be the last, either.
Honestly I didn’t do anything today. Too tired after f=ma.
Anyway I don’t believe that the robot can be done by this week. There’s no way.
Whatever, as soon as the intake is done I’ll take over try to get a dumb robot working. There is not really a choice after all.
I really hope our climb works. I was originally really against climb, but perhaps the only things on the robot that are going to work are going to be the drivetrain and the climb. :pensive:
I think our team is like
almost beyond hope at this point.
So, instead of setting goals, let’s paint a picture of what will actually happen, realistically, at this rate.
- first shooter, done and shooting 2/3
- robot cad, very slow progress. done perhaps like 2/6 ~ 2/10 maybe
- intake, started to machine around 2/5
- shooter, done 2/16 ish
- full robot, done 2/20 or later
- core robot code, done 2/26. this is just base, no shoot-on-the-fly, nothing too fancy
- simple autos, 3/3
- if we want better robot code (i.e. other stuff) it’ll press right into competition. if that is the case I am not writing it.
- mechanical predicted slowdowns, average of ~5 days.
- no time for driver practice or driver tryouts
this is pressing very tight into our competition. And there’s no buffer time here.
I said this like 12 robotics work-days ago. So like 2 weeks ago.
So far it’s been all true.
Well, well, well. I wanted to write a few more true statements here. But why write? it won’t change anything anyway.
Why try? it won’t change anything.
Is there really a point to continuing? if nothing’s going to change? why am i here? why am i still here?
what if i just….
…
?
