A Very Bright Beginning

12/8/09

To Everyone who worked in the metal shop these past days, I hope you know just how amazing you all are. Two days and two disasters into The Foote and already all the machining is complete. This is really unprecedented efficiency for 2102!

After lacking metal, and then being shipped the wrong metal on day two, things were looking bleak for the Mecanum Chassis timeline, but somehow we ended up with a complete set of complete parts for the chassis, and some new screenprinted sweatshirts, (which, by the way, are gorgeous)!

The turnout was amazing, and all you freshmen out there duly impressed us with your incredible enthusiasm and quick learning (and I am not making that up about the quick learning. You successfully made workable schematics out of Solidworks models, and walked through the entire fabrication process from rough cut to squaring to freshman bevel)! I'm sensing great things from the group this group of kids. The teamwork and camaraderie seemed to be oozing out of the walls of the shop and room 110. This is definitely going to be an awesome year.

Starting tomorrow we will jump right into the welding, electronics, and drive systems. Let's hope we're ready!

GO PARADOX!

-Isaac S.