I have have a problem with were to put our arm rotation and I was wondering how to even get it to work because last time I tried it, it didn’t work that well. My team has our first competition this weekend and half my team doesn’t do too much. I am basically the builder and then I have a driver and thats it the other one is a first year and the other two don’t really show up. Plus now my driver is doing basketball so I am now on my own. I need suggestions and I need to deliver for my team other wise I won’t have a title of one of the best builders in my grade. I just need to build for the next 3 days strait for about only 3 hours a day
Do you have any pictures or sketches of your existing design? It is impossible to understand what help you’re asking for without knowing your current designs. “Arm rotation” or “Grabber arm placement” is far from descriptive enough to allow us to understand what you’re trying to do and I have no idea what “problem” you are referring to.
Your comments about your team’s situation aren’t relevant to asking for design assistance. Although you could focus on preparing your robot for your upcoming tournament, you should also consider whether you can incentivize your team to contribute more effectively. You could perhaps teach the “first year” student and share your existing knowledge with the student so that in the future, the “first year” could be more helpful. You could speak to the two who didn’t show up and understand why they didn’t show up, especially on what actions you may need to take. You could speak to your driver and see if your driver can balance commitments, perhaps coming to basketball and robotics. If you are genuinely committed to wanting your team to succeed, you could start by taking the initiative to address some of your team’s ongoing problems.
It would help if you also considered the reason why you’re doing robotics and what your goals are for your team. If the reason that you are doing VRC is to maintain this “title.” you should probably reconsider what you are trying to accomplish. Something that I prefer for my team is to, at the very start of the season, set clear SMART goals so that we are not disillusioned with our purpose and targets.
Also, note that you should value quality over quantity. Although spending more time on developing your robot could make it more refined, what is most important is still your team’s effective use of that time. What is valued most, at the end of the day, is not how long you have spent building your robot but whether you have accomplished what you have set yourself to do.
Once you’ve taken a while to consider what I have said, do reply with further information or thoughts. Once you give us more information to work with, we can then give you better and more specific advice for you and your team.
Good luck!
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