[FRC-Designs.com] Announcing!!!

[Starke]

FRC Designs

"Your One Stop Shop For Robot Design Ideas and Solutions."

FRC Designs: http://www.frc-designs.com/index.html
FRC Designs Blog: http://www.frc-designs.blogspot.com/

Mission and Purpose

FRC Designs is a database for FRC robot design ideas and solutions. This database consists of previous and current robot designs for the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). The database includes images, videos, and CAD of robot designs that are submitted by FRC teams.

The goal of FRC Designs is to create a continuous improvement of competition among teams in future FRC competitions. This collaborative effort will give teams the ability to innovate on solutions that have been successfully used in previous competitions.

Teams: We need your help!

Submit your robot to the FRC Designs database! Please send us an email (matt@frc-designs.com) if you are interested! Below is a list of what is needed to be emailed to us!

- Team Number and Name
- Robot Name and Year/Competition Built
- Compressed (ZIP) Folder of CAD Files
- Picture of Robot
- Video of robot if possible (Link)

[MattC9]

Oh..my..god...this is too awesome.

I have died and gone to robot heaven......

[Chris is me]

Isn't this kind of what CD-Media is for?

[Mike Starke]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Isn't this kind of what CD-Media is for?

somewhat. except this will be easy to navigate- you won't have to search and hope you find what you're looking for. all in one central place.
I hope a lot of team participate! well done brother!

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by Mike Starke

somewhat. except this will be easy to navigate- you won't have to search and hope you find what you're looking for. all in one central place.
I hope a lot of team participate! well done brother!

It seems like a solid idea.

Perhaps after it catches a bit of steam, add search criteria by team number, game name-year (which you already have I suppose), and maybe even search by various robot components.

- Sunny G.

[lemiant]

This is AWESOME!!!

[Ankit S.]

Is this real life?

[BJC]

I love this! It has been a long time in coming in my opinion.
Way to take the first step, I hope everyone will use this.

[Cyberphil]

Epic, to say the very least! I can't wait till this gets a few more teams!

[jblay]

Great idea. I can't wait till this takes off and more teams add their designs.

[Cory]

This already existed in firstrobotics.net. unfortunately that site has since disappeared.

FIRST Robotics Canada also has some great galleries of robots, mechanisms, arms, grippers, etc.

[M. Mellott]

Is this in conjunction with JVN's challenge to post robot designs publicly on CD, or is this something you've been working on for a while now? What is the background behind the creation of this site?

I think it's a great idea--look forward to seeing this take off!

[Jim Zondag]

Love it! Great Idea.
I have complete models of several of our previous designs I will review and submit.

[Dripto]

Great idea! Just a quick thing, you listed 148's '09 bot as Armadillo.

Anyway, this could be a super useful resource, lets all hope it takes off!