Robot in 3 Days - Live Streaming and Updates Now

[miketwalker]

Hey everyone, Robot in 3 Days is now well underway. By Tuesday at noon we'll have completed a robot capable of playing "Ultimate Ascent".

Our initial reaction and strategy session is now up for viewing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jRIIg2ywMI). Keep checking our YouTube channel, every few hours we'll be uploading a progress video showing what works, what doesn't, and everything in between to help you in your planning.

Also: Our live stream is now up at http://www.robotin3days.com/livestream/. We're using a webcam that's unfortunately a bit blurry, but you can tune in and see all the action as we soldier on over the remaining 68 hours... 67 hours and 59 minutes... 67 hours and 58 minutes.....

[AlexJamesCross]

Your insane
When will you go to class?
WHEN WILL YOU SLEEP!?!?!?

[Dan Richardson]

Your insane
When will you go to class?
WHEN WILL YOU SLEEP!?!?!?

Sleep? Not necessary. Class... Well most the full timers are professionals, this is our Youtube channel with an intro to who we are. (http://www.youtube.com/user/robotin3days?feature=mhee)

There is more info at Robotin3days.com

Mike Walker is the newest member to our sponsor list representing Stream Monkey a web stream service provider. They've donated the stream for the event.

[AlexJamesCross]

Sleep? Not necessary. Class... Well most the full timers are professionals, this is our Youtube channel with an intro to who we are. (http://www.youtube.com/user/robotin3days?feature=mhee)

There is more info at Robotin3days.com

Mike Walker is the newest member to our sponsor list representing Stream Monkey a web stream service provider. They've donated the stream for the event.

Will you be competing with the three day robot?

[wendymom]

Robby hasn't pulled out the magic hammer yet.

[Andrew Rudolph]

Our first Frisbee Shooter Video of the Day has been posted here. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRBg-uCHT1c&feature=youtu.be)

We are working on our next revision which is a linear two wheel shooter and having some great results.

We will be posting a video for that shooter shortly.

[1683cadder]

How do they get the parts? are they part of a real first team or does first sponser them?

[miketwalker]

How do they get the parts? are they part of a real first team or does first sponser them?

We have a sponsor list on our site at robotin3days.com. Most of the team is from iR3. Cross the Road Electronics has supplied the electronics for the brains, AndyMark and iR3 have provided many of the drivetrain items and most of the motors come from previous years kits.

This isn't a full team, our goal is more to be a resource for teams as they are going through their design process to gleam ideas from and build upon and to help show that even small teams with basic machining are able to achieve the goals of the game with planning. If you go to our YouTube Channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/robotin3days/videos?view=0), we are providing updates every few hours explaining the lessons learned in the design, testing, and build phases for teams to consider.

[davidthefat]

Is that shooter veering to the right? Or is it relatively straight?

[miketwalker]

Two new videos have been posted this evening testing out different types of frisbee shooter designs.

Shooter 1 Prototype: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRBg-uCHT1c
Shooter 2 Prototype: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT88vWTYgj0

[j_chen_1676]

I'm absolutely in love with what you guys are doing. It really is an incredible thing, not just building the robot in three days (i can't even imagine...) but your entire mission.

I can absolutely say I'm cheering you on to build this robot.
Again...absolutely awesome.

[shank948]

I went to the live stream page here: http://www.robotin3days.com/livestream/ and right now it's just showing your 2nd prototype video. When's the live stream going to resume?

P.S. This has been so helpful for our team in considering strategy.

[miketwalker]

I went to the live stream page here: http://www.robotin3days.com/livestream/ and right now it's just showing your 2nd prototype video.

Try refreshing your page, sometimes when there are multiple Flash videos on a single page they load strange but the live feed will be going until the team calls it for the evening.

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We have one more video for this evening to talk about our plan of action for the next few days. We will be wrapping up for the night in the next hour or two but the live stream will resume in the morning with several more videos planned as we continue the shooter build for both launching and loading systems and of course we will eventually begin work on the climbing systems.

But, for now: Here's where we are headed. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTqmcV8H8kk) Goodnight, everyone!

[shank948]

Try refreshing your page


That worked, thanks.

[Andrew Rudolph]

Live Stream is back again! We've completed our custom drive base yesterday! And a number of shooter prototypes posted on our youtube channel!

Today we're doing final shooter assembly and hopper / indexer build!

Watch the live feed here!http://www.robotin3days.com/livestream

Videos every 6 hours or so here! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWVeGSgiq-E)

We'll be having a live chat with THE Andy Baker and friends around 2pm! Ask him questions about the game and his thoughts on prototyping etc...

Don't forget to follow on twitter for live updates! @Robotin3days

[Andrew Rudolph]

New video up showing videos of the development and testing of our frisbee hopper and indexing mechanism. Also the begining stages of the shooter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1hTGk6PI0Q&list=UUgtwgUTTxuldvAGW1u8SDSA&index=1

Be sure to join in the chat, there are dozens of people in there chatting and watching us work on the webcam.

http://www.robotin3days.com/livestream

[Reanna]

I'm officially a fangirl of iR3 and Team 1902 (especially their mentors)
If I ever see you, I'm taking a picture with you and getting your autograph. You have been warned.

[AutoPilot2020]

Can you give us a more detailed idea of consistency and distance of the second shooter? Also what was the difference between the RPM of the two wheels? You guys are making prototyping so much easier! We appreciate what you are doing!

[RoboMom]

fan club.

[Andrew Rudolph]

Can you give us a more detailed idea of consistency and distance of the second shooter? Also what was the difference between the RPM of the two wheels? You guys are making prototyping so much easier! We appreciate what you are doing!

Here is a video we just uploaded of the shooter. You can see in the video the consistency. For reference the last video taken the tent pole is ~15' from the shooter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyE4Ir6dkY8&feature=youtu.be

Subscribe to the YouTube page so you don't have to wait for us to link here!

[James1902]

I'm officially a fangirl of Team 1902, Exploding Bacon. Q_Q

Thanks! But just to be clear this isn't a project of Team 1902, it's completely an iR3 enterprise. (We're not quite that crazy )

All of the people working on the project have worked with the team before, (Dan, Robby, and Andrew are all 1902 mentors) and while the team is helping as much as we can, we are still building our 2013 competition robot separately.

As much as I wish Bacon could take credit for this amazing idea, in reality it's the involvement and influence of great people like the iR3 crew that helped make Bacon into the team it is today.

Keep up the great work guys! Everything seems to be coming together nicely :D

[ttldomination]

Here is a video we just uploaded of the shooter. You can see in the video the consistency. For reference the last video taken the tent pole is ~15' from the shooter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyE4Ir6dkY8&feature=youtu.be

Subscribe to the YouTube page so you don't have to wait for us to link here!

Oh man. That is interesting about the upside down frisbees. Thanks for addressing that.

Hopefully our prototypes produce similar results so we don't have to deal with orientation.

- Sunny G.

[CalTran]

No appreciable difference in orientation...that's interesting. Can you clarify what exactly was taking chunks out of the frisbee? Was it hitting the c-channel or was it the wheels itself actually?

[Nuttyman54]

I've been following the stream and youtube and what you guys are doing is fantastic. I really hope everyone, especially rookies, can see this. It's a very simple but effective design that would probably do well at most events. Keep up the good work!

[Dan 1038]

You guys are doing a great service to the FRC community, especially rookie and teams with few mentors. All three of my young teams will be learning from you guys this week, thanks for sharing! BTW - you guys are crazy trying this, but it shows what can be done with planning, support, and a careless approach to the need for sleep! I just gotta give you guys a very loud "Oink, Oink.... Boom!" For what you are doing! Best of luck!

[miketwalker]

Thank you, everyone, for all your support the past few days. The fun chat conversations and phone calls have turned this into a really great experience so far.

Can you clarify what exactly was taking chunks out of the frisbee?
It's mostly from the spinning wheel. If a frisbee gets "stuck" for any moment of time from being compressed while touching the wheel it will take a little off.

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We started to get a lot of similar questions so I went ahead and wrote a post (http://www.robotin3days.com/progress-update-sunday-night/) to give a bit of a snapshot of where we are at now. We posted a few more videos today on our YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/user/robotin3days/videos?view=0) and a lot of the questions we have been receiving are discussed in better detail on there or will be talked about in videos coming up tomorrow. Our live stream should be back up when we start work again around 8:30/9am.

http://www.robotin3days.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/robot_day2.jpg (http://www.robotin3days.com/progress-update-sunday-night/)

[Reanna]

Thanks! But just to be clear this isn't a project of Team 1902, it's completely an iR3 enterprise. (We're not quite that crazy )

All of the people working on the project have worked with the team before, (Dan, Robby, and Andrew are all 1902 mentors) and while the team is helping as much as we can, we are still building our 2013 competition robot separately.

As much as I wish Bacon could take credit for this amazing idea, in reality it's the involvement and influence of great people like the iR3 crew that helped make Bacon into the team it is today.

Keep up the great work guys! Everything seems to be coming together nicely :D
Oh, I changed it. Thank you for clearing that up for me, and sorry for the mishap, totally embarrassing. But since Bacon seems to have such wonderful mentors, I'm sure the entire team is full of absolutely wonderful people, so I'm now a fangirl of all of you wonderful people.
:]

[Joon Park]

Just wanted to say how amazing you guys are for doing this. Not only is it inspirational, but your prototypes and videos are extremely helpful to our strategy and design process. Thank you!

[miketwalker]

Hey guys, we're well under way with 20 hours left in our 3 day build timeframe. We're wrapping up our indexer/shooter/chassis integration and moving on to the climbing mechanism.

We just uploaded a new video on our YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfmsCxVSfa4) showing the shooter and indexer being integrated and how we are making design decisions to get everything operational.

Tune in at 6pm Eastern Time tonight to our live stream (http://www.robotin3days.com/livestream/) for a Live Chat with the team!

[Kims Robot]

How do we join the chat? I can see the livestream, but no chat window... Ive tried Chrome & IE...

[miketwalker]

How do we join the chat? I can see the livestream, but no chat window... Ive tried Chrome & IE...

Try refreshing in Chrome, sometimes the chat system we're using is weird with loading. We added it at the last minute so I haven't had the chance to work all the kinks out.

[Shawstek]

Mad props to you guys, I really love the idea. Good luck this year!

[miketwalker]

Missed our live chat at 6pm? No worries! We've gone ahead and uploaded it for you. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL8nMOoRFtc&feature=youtu.be) Tune in, we cover numerous topics and lots of great questions sent in by all of you. 16 hours to go!

http://www.robotin3days.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/livechatimage.jpg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL8nMOoRFtc&feature=youtu.be)

[Darth Drew]

Thanks a ton for the videos of your shooters, they really helped us answer questions we were having about the functionality of our shooter design idea (although we definitely still need to get started on our prototype)

[ClearlyInvsible]

With all due respect, is it possible to make a running FRC robot in 3 days? Including a climbing mechanism, frisbee shooter and pickup system. I ain't tryin t slam you guys, and the progress you're making is impressive. But dang, y'all got one heck of a workload.

[bristyn_96]

Wow I love what you've done! Especially demonstrating how the frisbees shoot upside down with your shooter design. ::rtm::

[DampRobot]

With all due respect, is it possible to make a running FRC robot in 3 days? Including a climbing mechanism, frisbee shooter and pickup system. I ain't tryin t slam you guys, and the progress you're making is impressive. But dang, y'all got one heck of a workload.

I'd argue that a running FRC robot, even a regional winning one, would not need to have all the functions you enumerated.

[miketwalker]

I'd argue that a running FRC robot, even a regional winning one, would not need to have all the functions you enumerated.

I agree with DampRobot. If you look at some of our videos explaining our thought process and a lot of the commentary in our Live Chat, you'll see our reasoning for choosing to do a few things but do them reliably and well.

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We've just posted a new video to our YouTube page. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FfFXO-QiHY) This one details what everyone's been asking for: How we plan to lift! It also shows the finished hopper and shooter and how the indexer is working with things.

http://www.robotin3days.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/hanger.jpg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FfFXO-QiHY)

13 hours and 24 minutes to go...

[Djur]

That robot looks awesome. Great job!

[Ryan Albright]

They are done!

[Nick Lawrence]

iR3 sets out to build an FRC robot that is probably rather competitive in 72 hours, and gets it done in 60.

Wow. Just wow. Mad props guys.

-Nick

[DampRobot]

Did they put in bumper mounts? On the other hand, I guess legality isn't the number 1 priority, just getting the thing built. Will this (probably highly competitive) machine be competing at any scrimages? I'd love to actually see it in action against other robots. Let's see what wonders 6 weeks of driver practice can work!

Any way guys, amazing job. I bet this will be forever regarded as the bot rookies should have built.

[dodar]

I wonder how many of these robots are gonna be at competitions? lol

[Ryan Dognaux]

I've been checking in on this every evening and I'm really impressed by how quickly the robot came together. I think the videos have also highlighted how the iR3 products would be great for many FRC teams that need the ability to quickly make changes to their robot on the fly.

[RoboMom]

With all due respect, is it possible to make a running FRC robot in 3 days? Including a climbing mechanism, frisbee shooter and pickup system. I ain't tryin t slam you guys, and the progress you're making is impressive. But dang, y'all got one heck of a workload.

"Those that say it can’t be done should get out of the way of those doing it” Chinese Proverb

[Ryan Albright]

Did they put in bumper mounts? .

No bumpers. They wanted people to be able to see into the robot and focus on the mechanics. shooter, drivetrain, hanging, etc

[Conor Ryan]

How soon can play against it in Off Season competition? Got any ideas lined up yet?

(You guys are allowed to add a crio so you can connect to the field)

[miketwalker]

Hey guys, if you've been following our Twitter feed you already know this: But we finished the bot at 12:30 this morning! Still can't believe we ended up getting it done with half a day to spare.

We brought it to our testing facility this morning to get some good video to unveil the final build. Andrew's piecing together all the video we shot and we will have it posted soon. In the next day or two we'll also put up a debriefing for the lessons learned and other things we encountered. A lot of those areas we got to talk about in the live chat, so if you have some time you should check it out (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL8nMOoRFtc).

Thank you again for all the support, there has just been such a massive amount of encouragement coming from you these past few days and it has been great to get to talk with so many of you that we haven't had the chance to work with before. It's super exciting to hear the ideas several teams have told us about in how they are improving on our designs for their competition bot and we hope that this has been something that is helpful and, more importantly, inspirational for your team.

Can't wait to see all of your robots this year and best of luck to you as you go through build season!

[Littleboy]

Great job Robot in 2.5 days team. It was fun to watch.
How fast is it geared to go? Shifters?
Also, when will the robot reveal video be up?