Robot in 3 Days 2025 - Strategy and Insight for FRC "REEFSCAPE" - Team Ri3D 1.0

Team Ri3D 1.0 got together to show you some essential examples from previous years and provide some strategy tips for this year's FIRST Robotics Competition game: “REEFSCAPE.”
"Robot in 3 Days" is one part education and one part entertainment. Our goal is to show students an engineering process to use for strategizing, brainstorming ideas, prototyping, and building a functional robot to compete in FIRST Robotics Competition and FIRST Tech Challenge events. Teams often lack mentor support or have low resources. We strive to show methods that can be implemented using easily accessible parts and common tools.
Students: Try to not focus on our designs, but on the methods we use to problem solve. Think about this years' game and ways your team can uniquely approach it. Unsure where to begin? Try creating these prototypes and improve upon them. Have a great idea? Test it out. Good luck!
Special thanks to the production team and advisors: George Wallace, Barry Bonzack, AJ Foster ‪@FTAAJ‬ / @ftaaj and Mike Walker ‪@mikewalkerfilms‬

[@mikewalkerfilms]

Mike here! Thank you guys again for all of the support and amazing stories over the past 12 years. I'm excited to get back to the roots of the Ri3D spirit with the new UA-cam channel and hope you'll tag along for the adventure!

[@redleader3423]

How to tell youve been around first longer than anyone else
You call swerve crab drive
Lol ❤

[@mikewalkerfilms]

Hahaha, we started in 2002/2004 respectively as students, so yea, we're basically fossils at this point.

[@redleader3423]

@@mikewalkerfilms
I feel that
While not quite as long, i started in 09. Some Fresmen that im mentoring werent born when i joined the team as a student.
On another note get off my lawn

[@ToriLue]

I definitely find myself to also say Crab drive. I had to stop myself when I created the scouting sheet for Reefscape for Krunch.

[@fernandox01]

AJ is the best FTA ever.

[@RoyDumlao]

Keep up the great work

[@monkeseeaction21987]

Cheap, fast, good. Guess we are taking 0 of them this year

[@tmxmOverwatch]

Now do it on an actual piano