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brandon3055
Sat Jun 30 2012, 04:40PM Print
brandon3055 Registered Member #4548 Joined: Mon Apr 23 2012, 03:52AM
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Anyone here familiar with FIRST? If so you may have been aware of the FRC challenge in Sydney Australia over the last 3 days if not here is a link to some of the video from the event Link2 I was on the drive team of 7777 from devil robotics I'm just curious as to how Manny of you know of FIRST and the FRC (FIRST Robotics Championship)

The winner's of the first official FRC Challenge in the southern
hemisphere
]imag0715.jpg[/file]

Sorry for the short post but it has been a long and exhausting but verry fun 3 days and at 2.40Am its time for me to go to bed
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Ben Solon
Sat Jun 30 2012, 05:18PM
Ben Solon Registered Member #3900 Joined: Thu May 19 2011, 08:28PM
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I do first. First thing that came to mind when I saw the subject of the post was: finally someone else here who does it! As far as I can tell it is just you, me and Eric goodchild who is now in college. I am actually captain of my team here in massachusetts. 2262. Unfortunatly in years previous we haven't done so well, but in my freshman year we placed 7th in the eliminations after holding first for considerable time in the qualification rounds.

I would be interested as well to how many people here do or did first at some point. Maybe no the hv part, but 4hv seems like a place where our sort to be hanging around.
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tobias
Sat Jun 30 2012, 08:12PM
tobias Registered Member #1956 Joined: Wed Feb 04 2009, 01:22PM
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I was part of one team, a (not so) long time ago =)
4 years, something like that.
After the Brazilian finals we classified for Atlanta.
So much fun..
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Legit_bacon
Sat Jun 30 2012, 10:41PM
Legit_bacon Registered Member #4034 Joined: Thu Jul 28 2011, 10:41PM
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I'm heavily involved in our schools first Lego leuge team. Unfortunately we are to young to be part of the FFC competitions. Last year we came second in our regionals :D
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brandon3055
Sun Jul 01 2012, 01:02AM
brandon3055 Registered Member #4548 Joined: Mon Apr 23 2012, 03:52AM
Location: tasmania
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Cool I wasn't shore what to expect when I made that post was enyone following the dual down under my team was the first to reach first place on day two most of the rounds we lost were due to technical problems. The first problem wa had wad Somone wasn't keeping en eye on the battery the second was a problem with our wheels and the third was when the pin that connects the belt to the drive motor broke but they were all miner problems. We were able to hold second place right throw the quolifier rounds and in the finals our alince won mi team also won the quality aworde.

Here are some more pictures (sorry for some reason since I upgraded my Android I cant post actual pics)
]imag0716.jpg[/file] this is the other team in our alince and their robot
]imag0713.jpg[/file]
]imag0621.jpg[/file] if your wondering whats in the boxes that's how our robot got from Hobart to Sydney on the plane I will post more pics when I get them I wasn't able to get a lot myself because I running the cannon (the judge's Nike named it the Tasmanian tower of terror)
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Chip Fixes
Sun Jul 01 2012, 01:43AM
Chip Fixes Registered Member #3781 Joined: Sat Mar 26 2011, 02:25AM
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Cool! I was in FTC this past year and we made it to the championship round at the Milwaukee, WI competition.
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Tetris
Sun Jul 01 2012, 02:11AM
Tetris Registered Member #4016 Joined: Thu Jul 21 2011, 01:52AM
Location: Gainesville, FL
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Hm Avi might like this. He doesn't go on the forum though...
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Adam Munich
Sun Jul 01 2012, 03:07AM
Adam Munich Registered Member #2893 Joined: Tue Jun 01 2010, 09:25PM
Location: Cali-forn. i. a.
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From my experience, FRC is a 'competition' where students are given a kit of largely boring/over;y complicated parts and are told to build a robot, all the time following a myriad of innovation-limiting rules.

The team with the most money / supervising engineers tends to win.
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brandon3055
Sun Jul 01 2012, 03:42AM
brandon3055 Registered Member #4548 Joined: Mon Apr 23 2012, 03:52AM
Location: tasmania
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Gren wrote ...

From my experience, FRC is a 'competition' where students are given a kit of largely boring/over;y complicated parts and are told to build a robot, all the time following a myriad of innovation-limiting rules.

The team with the most money / supervising engineers tends to win.
Most of what you just said is true but what's not fun about getting a kit of parts and being told to build a robot to compete in a cool competition?

BTW we had the simplest robot in the competition and not a lot experience but we still won
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Adam Munich
Sun Jul 01 2012, 10:56AM
Adam Munich Registered Member #2893 Joined: Tue Jun 01 2010, 09:25PM
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I like to start from scratch!
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