With how many other FRC teams are you practicing?

[Pault]

Its an interesting idea that I think could work out well for people. But honestly, for most interactions besides defense, a human will work as a fine substitute for a robot.

[E Dawg]

There are two teams in our area that we are practicing with, which is great since there are three teams per alliance.

[Boe]

Once we have our robot done we will be practicing with our two robots and our shop partners robot.

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by Pault

But honestly, for most interactions besides defense, a human will work as a fine substitute for a robot.

I would not be so sure about that. I believe that human interaction can and will be limited

[Jibri Wright]

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

I would not be so sure about that. I believe that human interaction can and will be limited

I believe he means that the humans are "acting" like robots, not as actual human players.

[audietron]

We will be practicing defense with last year's robot and practice at the swart dogs facility hopefully with all 6 Iowa teams, the last Saturday of build season.

[Squillo]

Haha, I wish we had "enough of our own robots"! Unfortunately, we're the only team on the island, so not much by way of options for us.

[cadandcookies]

Not regular practice, but we'll be hosting a week 0 with hopefully ~30 other teams, which should get some nice practice in.

Also hoping to get both robots done in time to get some double practice in.

[Chris is me]

Any Capital District team with a practice robot is welcome to come practice with us. We've got nothing to hide*.

So to answer the OP's question, we're probably just playing with 20 since they're the other team in the area with a practice robot. Hoping 229 makes the trek down, but not holding my breath.

[1493kd]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Any Capital District team with a practice robot is welcome to come practice with us. We've got nothing to hide*.

So to answer the OP's question, we're probably just playing with 20 since they're the other team in the area with a practice robot. Hoping 229 makes the trek down, but not holding my breath.

1493 has a practice bot this year, so hopefully we will see you over the next few weeks.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by 1493kd

1493 has a practice bot this year, so hopefully we will see you over the next few weeks.

Awesome! We've signed up for the field for several of the same times as you guys, so I'm sure we will play a lot of catch.

[mrnoble]

We've had 1410 come over a couple of times for practice, and we're planning on working with them again this week, as well as 2240. We've got last years bot and our practice bot from this year running too, so, maybe 6 or 7 bots at a time will be viable this week (1410 has a practice bot, and 2240 has last year's).

[TheMadCADer]

Originally Posted by Pault

Its an interesting idea that I think could work out well for people. But honestly, for most interactions besides defense, a human will work as a fine substitute for a robot.

The best way I've found to simulate the 'awkwardness' of driving a robot (since humans are too agile) is to put the humans on roller blades. A human is pretty much like a high-level swerve drive in its abilities, and most teams don't have those.

[BBray_T1296]

Originally Posted by TheMadCADer

The best way I've found to simulate the 'awkwardness' of driving a robot (since humans are too agile) is to put the humans on roller blades. A human is pretty much like a high-level swerve drive in its abilities, and most teams don't have those.

This sounds incredibly dangerous