These past two days have been very productive. We've assembled the drive train and made the first big steps towards a finished collecting mechanism. Thursday we submitted our animation which can be found on youtube.com if you search 1836 animation. We are all going on almost no sleep nowadays as we continue to work on the robot. two more days!

With only 2 meetings left, today we began by spray painting our robot an awesome red. It looks more awesome than ever. After it dried, we attached the rollers, and mounted the motors. The robot will soon be up and running. Onur and Max helped facilitate the construction of the robot. Tal, Eli, and Inbal wrote and perfected our team rap. The animation is viewable at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2s3Wgd193I

The welding should be done by today!!

At the moment, spirit is working on finishing the flag, and beginning the new and improved castle.

Check out the poll in this post!

Seeing as today is the start of week 4 I have decided that it is appropriate for me to make a post that describes where we stand as a team.

This year could very well be the first year that we get a working manipulator on our robot. As it stands we have machined all of the metal for our robot and should have the chassis welded by wednesday, which would be amazing. As captain I can say that I am very proud of where we are at, we will have to step things up to finish on time, however the progress that we have made this year is unprecedented.

Today, the programming team has been working on modifying an Xbox 360 controller. They were able to change the lights on it from green to red. The engineering team continued to work on the catapult. The spirit team and website team worked on the website and came up with some new ideas on how to improve our theme.