Simulated Season

[Zach O]

We talked about doing this at one point in time. It's a good idea, if you have the money and the supplies to do it. You'll need a full field to actually run matches on if you plan on having everyone build robots, too. It's no fun if you don't get to see how your robot does!

Make sure you have plenty of support from mentors or alum if you want to try it. That kind of knowledge will be helpful.

Here are the rules for all games, dating back to 2002.
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...t.aspx?id=4094

[548swimmer]

Originally Posted by Zach O

We talked about doing this at one point in time. It's a good idea, if you have the money and the supplies to do it. You'll need a full field to actually run matches on if you plan on having everyone build robots, too. It's no fun if you don't get to see how your robot does!

Make sure you have plenty of support from mentors or alum if you want to try it. That kind of knowledge will be helpful.

Here are the rules for all games, dating back to 2002.
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...t.aspx?id=4094

We need to check with our sponsor to see if we can build robots, but we have half a field built in our workshop at school we could run on.

I was picturing the entire team working to build one FRC robot, but it sounds like looking at multiple, smaller robots might be a better idea.

[Bjenks548]

Originally Posted by 548swimmer

We need to check with our sponsor to see if we can build robots, but we have half a field built in our workshop at school we could run on.

I was picturing the entire team working to build one FRC robot, but it sounds like looking at multiple, smaller robots might be a better idea.

Maize craze? although were gunna need to buy some corn kernels... Also for small robots we could use a FTC or VEX game.

[Zach O]

Originally Posted by 548swimmer

I was picturing the entire team working to build one FRC robot, but it sounds like looking at multiple, smaller robots might be a better idea.

I would suggest FLL/VEX. FLL would provide allow your students to work though the design process and work with sensors and programming (it's fully autonomous). VEX it a little more expensive than FLL, but the game would be more exciting (IMO).