Well folks, this is it. the robot apocalypse has finally arrived. Everybody arm yourselves. If you will excuse me, I need to go buy a hundred cans of beans and a chainsaw.
Could someone explain how the drive system is controlled? I understand how it works, but what does the driver have to do to make it drive the way they want? It's unlike anything I've ever seen before.
If you do the entire robot in CAD first, making a second bot is not that difficult. The code and everything is the same, you just need doubles of all your parts. Tons of teams do this, its to let drivers practice even after the competition robot is bagged, and to keep testing auton.
Wonjae Jang My senior year, my team finished our "practice bot" with about a week left in build season. The final robot was not finished until about 2 days before build ended, because parts didn't come in on time.
Our team builds our practice bot first it takes about 5 weeks and with the help of cad and the experience of building the practice robot the competition robot goes together in about 3-4 days in the last week of build season
I researched this team last year, and this is basically NASA building the robot for them. That facility is a NASA facility, and the team has 52+ mentors, most of which are NASA employees. They came to competition in my region last year, and actually had to take some stuff off of their robot because they went over the budget FIRST allows you to have. My team played a round with them, and another 3 digit team. the other team straight up told us to stay out of their way and give them all the frisbees, and team 118 implied it when we tried to talk strategy with them. This team is a bit of a disgrace to the spirit of FRC.
They know how to play the game. They are good they have elite strategies it is in best favor of the alliance to listen to them and there is a good chance you will win. It might not seem right for them to tell the other teams to stay out of the way but when you have a robot that is that good it makes it easier for them to play. I think everyone should have the chance to play their best but teams like this know what they are doing
Jealousy, it is a highschool competition not NASA and DARPA sending employees to have fun. our team basically had 3 mentors, one to make sure we had meetings one that helped seldomly but would help problem solve if you asked and I think he did the fundraising, and another that participated heavily, but did not make any decisions and he split his time with TSA projects. What is the point bt of having professionals do the work for you we hardly sent things to a machine shop, we would stay up till three drilling holes and flanging them and come in the next day and debur them all. I doubts it is 52 mentors cause I don't even think we had 20 people on our team so that sounds absolutely ridiculous, but they do have a field built which most years that would take 2 grownups 3 days. Yeah its not jealousy it would be cool to have the resources to be on a team like this, but would I have wanted 0 input on the robot. But it would have been nice to have a programmer or two so I you don't have a 10th grader as the only programmer and a robot with an arm flying in circles because they did not think about the one of the motors needing to go in reverse, lol thank God the mentors did not help that much cause if they saw that it would be a 2 hour meeting on safty
we graciously accept defeat
this is easily the best robot reveal in FRC history
1:24 is just... damn... so glorious
Nah, the 2017 steamworks one is better in my opinion.
As usual, you blow us all away. Hats off to you, mate.
This is the best robot I have seen this year
Wow! This robot looks so awesome! Awesome job with the release video and the self catch. Can't wait to see more.
Oh my. That is really something. I am crying tears of joy and awe. I hope my team makes Champs just so I can see this monster.
Kept waiting for the video this year. I'm so happy with the turnout of the robot.
i wish we had facilities like this..
Well folks, this is it. the robot apocalypse has finally arrived. Everybody arm yourselves.
If you will excuse me, I need to go buy a hundred cans of beans and a chainsaw.
Hope those beans are still good. You're gonna need 'em.
That song...
I see what you did there.
God that's one beautiful bot.
Your teams are amazing!
Another great robot. Good job.
Very nicely built. Good job!
Wow, shoots, catches, just wow!
1:23 is the most badass FRC clip I've ever seen.
great sounding robot
Awesome!
Amazing as usual!
Where are you guys competing this year?
What omni wheels where used on the robot?
is there anywhere I could get a cad of this robot, specifically the drivetrain?
Could someone explain how the drive system is controlled? I understand how it works, but what does the driver have to do to make it drive the way they want? It's unlike anything I've ever seen before.
Saw this at KC Regional. Beautiful bot.
so wish i could have still bin on the team to help build this amazing looking robot
you look 8 in your pfp. stfu
What drivetrain is this?
Hey, Where are you guys out of?
is it autonomous or teleop?
Is there any reasoning for using 8 wheel drive?
Maybe for using smaller kind of wheels or better performance with for example mecanum wheels
What programming language do you use
We use C++
Totally badass robot, I take that drivetrain over mechanum anyday.
what song is used for the background?
"Pinball Wizard" by The Who
Pinball Wizard - The Who
Hot damn
what kind of drive train does this robot have?
H drive
Lol I would like to see the code and the BOM on that badboy
u guys made 2 robots?!?!?!?!
someones got too much time on their hands :D
If you do the entire robot in CAD first, making a second bot is not that difficult. The code and everything is the same, you just need doubles of all your parts.
Tons of teams do this, its to let drivers practice even after the competition robot is bagged, and to keep testing auton.
i know but do you have the time? like my team had like 3 days to spare
Wonjae Jang My senior year, my team finished our "practice bot" with about a week left in build season. The final robot was not finished until about 2 days before build ended, because parts didn't come in on time.
Our team builds our practice bot first it takes about 5 weeks and with the help of cad and the experience of building the practice robot the competition robot goes together in about 3-4 days in the last week of build season
Would be much better with Swerve Drive
118 has built some very intraquite swerve drives over the years
I researched this team last year, and this is basically NASA building the robot for them. That facility is a NASA facility, and the team has 52+ mentors, most of which are NASA employees. They came to competition in my region last year, and actually had to take some stuff off of their robot because they went over the budget FIRST allows you to have. My team played a round with them, and another 3 digit team. the other team straight up told us to stay out of their way and give them all the frisbees, and team 118 implied it when we tried to talk strategy with them. This team is a bit of a disgrace to the spirit of FRC.
Hats off to anyone that can recruit and retain lots of mentors!
But before we give out accolades, let's get real. 52 mentors? Surely you exaggerate!
You're not the first to try to point this out and you won't be the last. Jealousy is a common plague of the Robonauts.
MY SIDES I'M DYING this made my day, the idiocy of some people, thank you for that
They know how to play the game. They are good they have elite strategies it is in best favor of the alliance to listen to them and there is a good chance you will win. It might not seem right for them to tell the other teams to stay out of the way but when you have a robot that is that good it makes it easier for them to play. I think everyone should have the chance to play their best but teams like this know what they are doing
Jealousy, it is a highschool competition not NASA and DARPA sending employees to have fun. our team basically had 3 mentors, one to make sure we had meetings one that helped seldomly but would help problem solve if you asked and I think he did the fundraising, and another that participated heavily, but did not make any decisions and he split his time with TSA projects.
What is the point bt of having professionals do the work for you we hardly sent things to a machine shop, we would stay up till three drilling holes and flanging them and come in the next day and debur them all.
I doubts it is 52 mentors cause I don't even think we had 20 people on our team so that sounds absolutely ridiculous, but they do have a field built which most years that would take 2 grownups 3 days. Yeah its not jealousy it would be cool to have the resources to be on a team like this, but would I have wanted 0 input on the robot. But it would have been nice to have a programmer or two so I you don't have a 10th grader as the only programmer and a robot with an arm flying in circles because they did not think about the one of the motors needing to go in reverse, lol thank God the mentors did not help that much cause if they saw that it would be a 2 hour meeting on safty
I wish NASA would build the robot for us like they did for you. lame
lmao the salt