Robotics - Building the Field

I actually did something useful and robotics-related at robotics today! The components for our field just arrived, so it's time to set it up. The teachers/coaches/mentors decided to purchase components for only half the field, which is passable (we don't need to host actual four-robot rounds in our testing field), but of course suboptimal. We'll deal with it, but it will be somewhat more difficult to test both robots at the same time; having both sides of the field available for that was really nice last year.

There are quite a few parts and lots of nuts and bolts. So far, we built the ramp and started the construction of the centerpiece. The ramp construction was made somewhat difficult by the lack of an appropriately-sized crate to place under the top piece to hold it up. We also don't seem to have the right size of 90-degree braces, nor can we understand what the documentation means when it says "flanger." (We even looked it up and there is nothing like that in any of the pieces!)

The build team has a barebones drive system together, which I imagine I'll be programming tomorrow.