Well, I took a personal day off to do school work (sort of). Here is my reason why... FIRST Robotics is a competition season where high school students (like me) build robots to compete in an objective based game. Over the past three days, my team (Mech Warriors FRC team 573) have been in St. Louis competing amongst 400 other teams (from all over the world) for the title of World Champions. We made it to finials in our division but ended up losing both of our matches (2 out of 3 matches) to the eventual world champions. Anyone else here on a FRC team? if so what team, did you go to worlds? Fun stuff: www.usfirst.org www.thebluealliance.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxp4dkMQ1Vo www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXKXpt-eq-s
Dunno, but a friend of mine is in St Louis with this little doohickey. (imported from here) Thought it was a Roomba with VHS player parts stacked on top.
looks like foamcore. Cheap and lightweight, fairly sturdy too. Pretty popular choice. I honestly have no idea if FIRST runs in the UK, I've never entered. I do mess about with microcontrollers quite a bit though.
That I believe is a FTC Robot. IDK, There were 400 FRC teams, A lot of FLL and JR. FLL teams and a good amount of FTC teams all there. Looks good on a Resume . It is very fun as well.
My physics teacher just got back from st. Louis. Apparently my schools tram got like 44th, which is pretty gpod seeing as it is our schools first year doing this.
This completion sounds really interesting. I think it's a great idea. When I was in high school I heard about competitions like this, but despite attending one of the largest high schools in the state we had no program like this. All my school was interested in was sports. We did have something called Science Olympiad but it was basically a competition about taking tests Seriously. Congratz on making it as far as you did.
I've never done FIRST robotics, but I was in a robotics and engineering club for quite a few years, and competed in smaller scale local robotics competitions. While my robot may not have been as large and impressive as a FIRST competitor, I was still fairly happy with it. Maybe very happy with it...
