FIRST Choice round two!

[rsisk]

Got a hall effect sensor, a boulder, and some pneumatic stuff

[Nate Laverdure]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

We got 2 1/2 Hex Shaft Collars

[notmattlythgoe]

Originally Posted by Nate Laverdure

[Greg Needel]

So I was looking at the things left over after round 2 and realized that almost 1/3 of teams didn't claim anything during this round.

The Analog Devices sensor board http://firstchoicebyandymark.com/fc16-000

was automatically given to every team in this round and there were 3250 units at the start of round 2. As of this post there are still 1336 left.

That there are over 1000 FRC teams that didn't claim FIRSTchoice. I suspect many of these teams are rookies or others, so if you talk to local teams in your area remind them that all of these items are part of their registration fees, and they will loose the credits if they don't use them.

There is still plenty of useful things still left.

• Analog devices IMU- I can't believe this didn't sell out, as it is an $850 part
• SPARK Motor controller - a bit too expensive from a credit perspective, but good if you want one to try.
• Bolders - who doesn't want another game piece
• 775PRO - new motor that looks great, also currently back ordered from WCP so this is a good place to get them.
• Victor 888 motor controllers - older generation controllers but still work great.
• And more

Lets see if we can get the word out to the 1000+ teams who forgot about FIRSTchoice round 2!

[SoftwareBug2.0]

Originally Posted by Greg Needel

There is still plenty of useful things still left.

• Analog devices IMU- I can't believe this didn't sell out, as it is an $850 part

I was surprised about the IMU being left too. There were only 350 to begin with. I put those at the top of my team's list because I thought that if we wanted them we'd have to ask for them early.

On the other hand the description page only listed LabVIEW support, which may have scared people off. I did a little bit of extra research and it looked like getting them to work with C++ would be doable, but I suspect that a lot of times the person in charge of ordering would see that and dismiss it out of hand if they knew their team wasn't going to run LabVIEW.

One thing that seemed pretty clear to me when I was ordering was that the team wasn't going to be willing to spend another $850 to get a spare later so I was either going to ask for two or none. At 50 credits each, that gets you to 100 points, which is 2/3 of the new allotment of points. I wonder if a lot of teams didn't want to spend such a large fraction on something they weren't already familiar with.