While last week I said time has not had much of a limiting factor as of now on the process as a whole, that continues to stand true for right now. As of now, we have been running fairly well and maybe a tad behind schedule, but way ahead of where we were in past years. In 2013, we were only just beginning to prototype the intake mechanism, and had only just built the shooter out of wood and prototyped a firing mechanism, but did have a finished drivetrain. While we haven't yet made a concrete version of the latch for the firing portion of the catapult mechanism, we definitely have done everything else, and the bot could function and do what's needed in a competition. In 2012, we were just finishing all of the CAD drawings by now and getting ready to send them in.
Overall, we are definitely at least 2 weeks ahead of past years, and have stayed fairly on schedule. In terms of the process of evaluating the engineering design process, not much more has happened since the last week in terms of moving along the process, since most of what has been happening is the building, rather than designing or testing parts of everything. Pretty much, we have just been going off of what has been already designed, and are continuing to do so, but should be done sometime soon.
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