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[FRC Blog] The Portcullis and the Kit of Parts Survey

Posted on the FRC Blog, 5/26/16: http://www.firstinspires.org/robotic...the-kop-survey

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The Portcullis and the Kit of Parts Survey

Written by Frank Merrick, 2016 MAY 26.


The Portcullis

Some of you have probably heard that the portcullis will not be used at off-season events. This is true. Some individuals were hurt in handling the portcullis during the regular season, and while I believe we eventually developed a procedure for handling the portcullis that reduced the risk of injury, I don’t think the advantage of having the portcullis available at off-season events outweighs the small risk that someone else will get hurt. We’ve said it before, and will say it again and again, nothing we are doing in FRC is worth getting hurt over.

The challenges we had with the portcullis this season pointed out a few things we’ll be working on moving forward. First, we’ll be paying special attention to any field elements with moving parts and developing specific handling procedures, as required, before the season starts. Second, we are working to develop a priority alert system to field personnel from FIRST HQ when an issue arises needing immediate attention. With the volume of information we provide field staff, it’s important for them to know which communications must be acted on immediately, and which can wait until the end of what are often long, intense days.

FIRST STRONGHOLD was an exciting game, and we want more like that, but don’t want the kind of excitement that leads to people getting hurt. We’re committed to an exciting, and safe, FIRST experience for all.



Kit of Parts Survey

Here’s your chance to help us improve your experience with the FRC Kit of Parts! The Kit of Parts survey is open now, and will be available until June 24. We ask that no more than one student and one mentor from each team complete the survey, so teams choosing to respond will be more fairly represented.

Tell us what you think, so we can get better! Please follow this link to provide your feedback!



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Re: [FRC Blog] The Portcullis and the Kit of Parts Survey

Im convinced Frank e-mails you a few minutes before he makes a blog post.

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Re: [FRC Blog] The Portcullis and the Kit of Parts Survey

This was kind of a downer for our team, because they worked so hard to autonomous the portcullis. It wasn't even an option at our lone regional, except in one practice match (where they successfully autonomoused the portcullis). Much of the robot design was based on doing that and clearing 8 of the 9 defenses. They could auto our wood portcullis in practice, so the real one was pretty easy.

On the up-side, it will be easier to convince them to replace the wedge they were using for it (and low-goal intake/outtake) with a high-goal shooter before our offseason events.
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The challenges we had with the portcullis this season pointed out a few things we’ll be working on moving forward. First, we’ll be paying special attention to any field elements with moving parts and developing specific handling procedures, as required, before the season starts.
Game hint! Next year, there will be field elements with moving parts.
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Game hint! Next year, there will be field elements with moving parts.
NO.

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Game hint! Next year, there will be field elements with moving parts.
There's a balance. Too many/complicated moving parts on the field put lower resource teams at a large disadvantage when it requires a large percentage of their resources to build field elements that are "close enough" to competition quality.
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Games that I have been around for that had moving parts.
2006
2007
2009
2010
2012
2013
2015
2016

It's not uncommon really, although most of it was just chains.

Games that had legitimate moving Field Elements

2007 - The Rack
2009 - The Trailers
2012 - The Bridges
2016 - EVERYTHING!!! Especially when Team 900 was on the field.
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Games that had legitimate moving Field Elements

2007 - The Rack
2009 - The Trailers
2012 - The Bridges
2016 - EVERYTHING!!! Especially when Team 900 was on the field.
Don't forget the 2015 Chute Door.

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Games that I have been around for that had moving parts.
2006
2007
2009
2010
2012
2013
2015
2016

It's not uncommon really, although most of it was just chains.

Games that had legitimate moving Field Elements

2007 - The Rack
2009 - The Trailers
2012 - The Bridges
2016 - EVERYTHING!!! Especially when Team 900 was on the field.
2014 had the decorative photoreflective panels that flipped at random as well.
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I would love it if FIRST would calculate and publish their recordables incident rate... then we could keep track of the metric and see how we're actually doing as far as a safety culture goes.
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2014 had the decorative photoreflective panels that flipped at random as well.
Or didn't...
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2016 - EVERYTHING!!! Especially when Team 900 was on the field.
This made my day.

Also, why we can't have nice things.
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Re: [FRC Blog] The Portcullis and the Kit of Parts Survey

I have to take a slightly different tone and give credit where its due to the FRC engineering staff. Taking on a task such as this year's game, with how dynamic the field was during and between matches, and with how abused those defenses were - they did a pretty darn good job.

13,000+ matches played and aside from a bad instance here or there, the field generally did its job. That is no simple task.

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Liquids can move. Water is a liquid. #watergame2017confirmed
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Liquids can move. Water is a liquid. #watergame2017confirmed
Air can also move...
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