It's critical for any FTC robot to fit inside an 18 inch sizing cube - that's the guiding principle on which it is based. Therefore, we thought it was a good idea to check to make sure that our robot was indeed the correct size.
Except for the flag raiser, which has been causing all kinds of trouble, it fit! The block-dumping servo's corner had to be cut off, but that was very easy to do and caused no problems. It did, however, take quite a while. By the time we had it sized, the important build people had to leave. I was able to find and repair a disconnected wire, which solved some issues with the hanger bar.
With only me and engineering notebook people left, we went to the field room to test and practice driving. Since we had quite a bit of time left, we were very successful in our practice. Everyone there is now capable of both driving the robot and handling the ops controller. The only thing we couldn't check was the raiser.
We're almost there - really this time!
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