REV Robotics in Texas spent the afternoon after the game annoucnement prototyping for this year's FIRST Tech Challenge game "Relic Recovery." They were able to test multiple cube intake systems and put together a functional prototype for stacking cubes. Also they discovered a great way to approach this years' autonomous mode. Check out their progress and think about ways you can incorporate this into your teams' design. The main Robot in 1 Weekend team in Orlando, FL had to delay this year's build a weekend due to Hurricane Irma, but the REV team joined us for our final robot. Learn more about our strategy going into this years' build at https://youtu.be/oE2_lo1Jz-M
0:08 Initial Intake Prototypes
1:25 Additional Intake Prototypes
2:02 Autonomous Mode Ideas / Starting Configuration Discoveries
4:10 Stacking Prototype
"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 few 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!
