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View Poll Results: Do you build your own field?
Yes, we build a full field. 39 22.03%
No, we build half of the field...who really needs a full field anyway? 50 28.25%
No, all we build is the centerpieces (no player station, only the puck/ramp&bar/bridge&goals). 73 41.24%
No, but we know a very nice team that lets us use their stuff. 9 5.08%
We have absoluetly no access to a field. (except at competitions) 6 3.39%
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How many of you build your own field?

Just curious...this spurns off of something Nate said about the MI forum, and Im wondering if this is a nation-wide thing.
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I believe it's WORLD-wide...
We built a full field, using some pipes from 2000's field (try not noticing the previously red goal pipes turned into a center barrier )
We did have some problems with the bridge, concerning metric measurements - sometimes we had to glue two or three layers of wood together to meet the specifications, in inches.
Oh, and we did not use any acrylic or diamond plate, so our alliance station was kinda bare naked...

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rambots really dont fit into any of those categories...
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we have neither the money nor the space to build the whole field. so we just build the centerpieces
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Re: How many of you build your own field?

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we have neither the money nor the space to build the whole field. so we just build the centerpieces
Thats sounds like US! ! !

we have built 4 tetras
center goal
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Re: How many of you build your own field?

Yeah, we generally lay out the dimensions of the field, so we know how much space we have to work in and to get a feel for it. We build at least one of each of the elements (i.e. this year: auto loader, center goal, side goal, vision tetra) and then a bunch of the small tetras. This way we can check out all of the functions and issues etc. that we need to address. And if we are going to have a scrimmage this year with a few local teams, then we will build some more components for the field.

A tip to those teams that can't find enough PVC end caps or other parts: order your parts early. This seems to work out less problematically than going out on the day of/after kickoff and trying to find all of the necessary things.

Good luck to all teams out there, regardless of whether you have a full field, or very little to work with!
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Re: How many of you build your own field?

So far we've built one tetra, a regular goal, and the tetra loader.

Last year we built a few peices, but this year the place we kept them is used for storage for the college. Usually we went out to the loby of the building to practice on carpet... (Robot! Fetch that undergrad!!!)

We also went down to 121 (madd props!!) last year, and they had an awesome field.. I don't remember if it was full sized or not.

But on the subject... does anyone know why the placed new drawings for the loaders? The changes aren't huge.. but we had already built ours.. :/
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we build pathetic mock ups of the important parts of the centerpieces. like we built half of the base of the goal out of plywood, and a small section of the bar thingy out of the same
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I believe it's WORLD-wide...
Oops Sorry.

Speaking of Brazil, I wanted to say that when I graduated this year my good friend Henry sang the national anthem at practice.....once it was over, i nudged my friend Jen in front of me & said "Ok, now Im ready for the Brazilian anthem" (which, by the way, she loves). She went nuts right there...and recieved quite a number of stares from all the people around us who had never heard the thing.

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Field build

Depending on the game we build as much filed as our space will allow. Most of the time we have a field that is 75% size.

Hopefully FIRST will keep using the Kee Klamp parts. It saves cash because we can re-cycle the old field parts.
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The area we have to put our field is only about a quarter of the size of the actaul field so we just build the centerpieces and such.
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Re: How many of you build your own field?

My team makes a half playing field. But this only just started this year for 1 reason, (1) We didnt have the space! But I feel as though building a field makes the team way effective.
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Last year my team built only the esential/center pieces; ie one goal, the bridge, and the stretcher. This was mostly due to lack of space for storing the parts, we barely had enough room for our bot, tools and other parts.
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I don't see the poll option for teams that don't build any part of a field and have no teams within a 2 hour drive.... anyway.... our team didn't have the funding to build any parts of the field. Basically, our field consisted of two barrels on top of each other which resembled a goal. In retrospect, having the essential parts of a playing field are extremely important, as our team decided not to do anything with the ramp because we had no way to test our design if we were to go in that direction. Lesson learned: build essential parts at all costs (or use another team's if you have teams nearby)

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Every Year we build a whole field, we are Lucky enough to have a sponser (Gillette, I'v got to plug the name at some point) with the funds to alow us to build the whole thing, but I have the utmost respect for the Teams with great robot without one.
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