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Sscamatt
21-02-2004, 19:23
Does anyone know of a website with the history of all the games from past years since the beginning...with pictures and explanations. I haven't been in FIRST long and am intrested in past years games.
Jay H 237
21-02-2004, 20:04
I don't know of a single website off hand but I do know that a lot of the different veteran teams websites contain pictures and sometimes descriptions of the previous years games. I do know that our teams site will (www.team237.com) but it is a relatively new site and some of the links aren't up yet.
Sscamatt
21-02-2004, 21:10
nice, just what i was looking for....anyone have pre-1999 games?
Our team (http://www.x-cats.org) has a history section with pictures of past robots and such but it isn't very thorough explaining the previous years games, I'm afraid.
check out this site: http://www.archive.org. Some people are archiving the internet. Go to the way back machine, and type in http://www.usfirst.org and it should give you dates when they last archived it. There are discripions and pictures of most of the games.
Sscamatt
21-02-2004, 21:55
This archive site is cool. Can have hours of fun with it lol. Seems like lots of FIRST registering for events and what not is done on the website now a days. Must have been alot harder pre-2002 season or am i missing something?
Joe Ross
21-02-2004, 22:01
Here is a nice site: http://www.swindsor.k12.ct.us/first/old%20first/archive/92/1992.htm
Replace the 92 with the 2 digit year and the 1992.htm with the 4 digit year.
Sscamatt
21-02-2004, 22:08
on the archived first sites i found all the stuff about regionals. I have been following team number expansion over the years. Answered my questions about alot of things including how the team numbers were assigned :) http://web.archive.org/web/20010405124839/www.usfirst.org/FRCHistory.html
I know that it does not provide info on all of the games but there is so much more that is there.
Sscamatt
21-02-2004, 22:18
wow, 25lbs robot weight limit in 1992, I don't even think thats possible to get a running robot under 25lbs today
Tom Bottiglieri
21-02-2004, 22:31
oh not possible is it??!! I will make one... all i need is duct tape and a high powered hole saw...
Paradox1350
22-02-2004, 20:19
oh not possible is it??!! I will make one... all i need is duct tape and a high powered hole saw...
Don't forget the zipties ^_^
Sscamatt
22-02-2004, 20:23
speaking of zip ties....we bought a bag of 500 11in ones and used more than half of them in one meeting :p
Tom Bottiglieri
22-02-2004, 20:25
that was a fun meeting... it took us a half hour to pick up the 10 iicnh parts we cut off.
miketwalker
02-05-2004, 12:49
Andy Baker and I talked at the FIRST Conference at nationals, and I think over the summer we're going to try to make a website archive including video, pictures, descriptions, etc. dating back to the first year. I'm sure one of us will post about it when we get a chance to start it.
Ken Stafford
02-05-2004, 21:58
wow, 25lbs robot weight limit in 1992, I don't even think thats possible to get a running robot under 25lbs today
Recall that the Maize Craze robots were tethered and therefore had no batteries on board, no Robot Controller, no speed controllers, no relays...and the LARGEST motors were seat motors! The WPI robot used 2 seat motors for driveline (!!), and 2 much smaller motors for accessories...and that was it. Btw, there is a class for combative robots (I've seen Tyler Forbes') that weighs under a pound WITH full r/c, speed-controlled motors for driveline and "weapons"!
Ken
Recall that the Maize Craze robots were tethered and therefore had no batteries on board, no Robot Controller, no speed controllers, no relays...and the LARGEST motors were seat motors! The WPI robot used 2 seat motors for driveline (!!), and 2 much smaller motors for accessories...and that was it. Btw, there is a class for combative robots (I've seen Tyler Forbes') that weighs under a pound WITH full r/c, speed-controlled motors for driveline and "weapons"!
Ken
Yeah, antweights. But at most their weapons seem to be a wedge. The robovation robots weigh way less than 25 lbs. I think the one I made was like 6 or 7 and could have probably weighed 3-4 faily easily. I used a battery that weighed 3-4 times the backup batteries and had a nearly functional arm.
Ken Stafford
02-05-2004, 22:21
Yeah, antweights. But at most their weapons seem to be a wedge. The robovation robots weigh way less than 25 lbs. I think the one I made was like 6 or 7 and could have probably weighed 3-4 faily easily. I used a battery that weighed 3-4 times the backup batteries and had a nearly functional arm.
Actually Tyler's has a horizontal axis, spinning (15000rpm ?) forward weapon that pretty much destroys all-comers (actually this may have been in the couple pound class--it was about 2 in square, CNC'd aluminum sides with single layer carbon fiber covers). Amazing...
Ken
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