The difference with Booth is that if you screw up because you're tired and missed a little detail, you generally don't have to replace whole wall sections and rebuild what you made the day before...
(... not to say that there aren't mistakes, just that they're not quite such a setback.)
Anyway, thanks, and good luck with yours. I'll be watching the webcam from time to time. *hugs back*
So I'm living through the robot with you, being the other half of our team, and I've lived through booth as a chair. Sorry Richard, but in my opinion booth is harder. Perhaps because it involves doing a whole lot more in the same amount of time, perhaps because one is even more sleep deprived, perhaps because one has to contend with weather and many other people...
But then, perhaps I feel this way because I'm comparing mechanical work to mechanical work and you're trying to compare electrical work to mechanical work. ;)
I now want to say something reassuring, but I'm no more confident then you that this will get done by Saturday... maybe because I have to take your word on the state of the electronics.
Booth is harder, yes, precisely for the resasons you mentioned: much more to do in about the same amount of time. The scale is completely different.
But, you have a larger team working on it. Percentage-wise, I don't think it's as easy for one person to break as much of the booth in as little time. (Also, I have to admit part of it is that it does bother me that $6 comes out of my pocket each time I screw up. That doesn't exactly reduce pressure, does it?) Regarding mechanics vs. electronics, I'd argue that if you missed with a hammer in the right way on our robot you could do percentage-wise a lot more damage in a short period of time than you could to a booth, too.
Also, some of it is that, to compare with one thing in Booth, imagine if, instead of a circuit breaker throwing when you draw too much current, you just melted the power distribution system for Midway... or even just threw the breaker for all of Midway instead of just your plot. Now, imagine you do this once a day. How many people are going to be annoyed at you
surface mount hbridges eh? Do they have enough capacity for the power your motors pull? The ones I used to have were dips, and they told us to stack & solder them if our motors used too much power.
The motors only draw about 50mA at 9V. The problem is when, as I did twice in the past three days, you connect VDD to ground and GND to power. That makes a nice bubble in the suffix in about a second and definitely lets the magic smoke out right fast.
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(... not to say that there aren't mistakes, just that they're not quite such a setback.)
Anyway, thanks, and good luck with yours. I'll be watching the webcam from time to time. *hugs back*
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But then, perhaps I feel this way because I'm comparing mechanical work to mechanical work and you're trying to compare electrical work to mechanical work. ;)
I now want to say something reassuring, but I'm no more confident then you that this will get done by Saturday... maybe because I have to take your word on the state of the electronics.
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But, you have a larger team working on it. Percentage-wise, I don't think it's as easy for one person to break as much of the booth in as little time. (Also, I have to admit part of it is that it does bother me that $6 comes out of my pocket each time I screw up. That doesn't exactly reduce pressure, does it?) Regarding mechanics vs. electronics, I'd argue that if you missed with a hammer in the right way on our robot you could do percentage-wise a lot more damage in a short period of time than you could to a booth, too.
Also, some of it is that, to compare with one thing in Booth, imagine if, instead of a circuit breaker throwing when you draw too much current, you just melted the power distribution system for Midway... or even just threw the breaker for all of Midway instead of just your plot. Now, imagine you do this once a day. How many people are going to be annoyed at you
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