Robot in 3 Days : Completed Robot Video

[Dan Richardson]

Originally Posted by George1902

I know the guys pretty well, so I'll do my best to answer until they can respond...

It looked like they had lots of help from the live feed, but this is the core team and their rookie years. They were all students on FRC teams:

Dan - 2001
Andrew - 2000
Robby - 2003
miketwalker - 2002

They said in the chat, I believe, that they worked until about midnight each night and started at 9 a.m. on Sunday and Monday. So, that's about 42 hours and over 30 years of FRC experience.

Thanks for all the kind words. The man hours were significant and we do have a few years of experience under our belt. It also helps to have most commonly available products already sitting on your shelves. ( Thanks Sponsors! ) One potential take away is that most teams pull late nights at the end of the build season. Why not flip the paradigm on it's head and have those late nights upfront.

George is spot on with our years in FIRST.

One thing I'd like to add is that we severely underestimated the time it would take to shoot and edit video. Mike and Andrew spent much of the first two days working on releasing videos and the live stream. It was painful to lose the extra hands but we had additional help show up at the right times.

On the weight: I think we are in the 85-95 lbs range. We took a weight prior to mounting the lifting mechanism and we were around 72 lbs. We have a few advantages like a lighter control system but we also didn't do anything to lighten the robot. We don't have weights on the individual systems/components. I imagine they could be estimated from CAD though.