Announcing FirstRobotPics.com

[Jason Rudolph]

Hello All.

It's been a long time since I've posted anything on these forums. I started back in 1998 in FIRST, and used to run a website called FirstRobotics.net The intention of the site was to create a pictorial history of FIRST Robots in one place online. I always got a lot of good feedback and thought it provided a good service to the community. Well, my career took off, and I really didn't have the time to keep it up. I have been thinking a lot about it in recent years, and finally was able to get it back up and running. I had let the web registration lapse, so now it has been re-born at FirstRobotPics.com I have a decent amount of pictures up there, but unfortunately had lost a bunch of my archives. There is a place for people to submit their own pictures, so if you have a better picture of a robot from a certain year, or one that is missing from the site please submit it. I have a lot of future ideas for the site, but at least it's up and running, the first giant step.

Thank you all, and enjoy this new resource.

Jason Rudolph

[Grim Tuesday]

This is really cool; there are pictures of our team on there that I've never even seen, someone must have submitted them ages ago. This looks like a great service for the FIRST community to have. Have you considered any sort of integration with The Blue Alliance?

[ENeyman]

I just uploaded a photo of our robot from last year, but it hasn't shown up yet. Is there some lag time or did I do it wrong?

[Jason Rudolph]

It'll take a while, I have to approve and put into the right gallery. Thanks for the submissions!

[Hallry]

I love it!

Is is possible for you to create a way for you to search for a specific team, and see all of their uploaded pictures for each year?

EDIT: Realized there is a search bar on the home page =X

[Jason Rudolph]

If you type in a 4-digit number in the search box on the main page you will see all pictures of that team. I just need to work on the labels that appear in the search results.

[Madison]

This is fantastic. It's great to see that the site is up and running again AND that all of the old pictures are still around.

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

This is really cool; there are pictures of our team on there that I've never even seen, someone must have submitted them ages ago.

Agreed, this is really awesome. There's even a picture of our robot last year, and I (nor anyone on my team) didn't submit it, meaning someone took pictures from CD! Awesome website, I can tell this will come in handy in the future.

[JVN]

This is fantastic. The original firstrobotics.net was one of the resources that helped "teach" me how to design FRC robots. I remember spending hours and hours pouring over the old pictures, reverse engineering each robot, and trying to learn as much as I could about how they worked.

Thank you Jason for bringing it back!

[ehochstein]

This is officially my new favorite website, going to show it to the students tonight!

[Anupam Goli]

This site is great! I spent like 2-3 hours last night looking at the pictures of a lot of the teams, especially the teams that were on Einstein in years' past.

[Jason Rudolph]

Thanks for the feedback guys. I kinda wish I had been able to get it up earlier in the build season this year, as I always thought it was really useful to look back at successful robots from years that had similar game features. I have lots of ideas for the future of the site, and lots of people have been sending in new pictures already. Hopefully someday we'll have a picture of every robot that has competed in FIRST! It really is amazing to see how far it has come since 1992......

[wilsonbiggs]

Loading photographs takes a long time, or doesn't happen at all... it has the red "LOADING" on top and doesn't show any photos. The internet I'm on should be loading the images in a maximum of ten seconds or so (even if it's something like 2000x3000 pixels). Is it just me?

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[Jason Rudolph]

I do have to say some of the pictures are quite large, I have to work on that for some of them. That is probably the issue your having (there are a few that are 4mb)

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by JVN

This is fantastic. The original firstrobotics.net was one of the resources that helped "teach" me how to design FRC robots. I remember spending hours and hours pouring over the old pictures, reverse engineering each robot, and trying to learn as much as I could about how they worked.

Thank you Jason for bringing it back!

Exactly the same for me.



Very excited to have the photos and site back.

Jason, any way I can help you out?