The Robot in 3 Days Challenge!

[Dan Richardson]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jsYs...ature=youtu.be

Robot in 3 Days is back and we’re bigger and better than ever for 2014! With more of the action, more of the excitement and more of the action! This year, 3 teams will compete to build a robot to play the 2014 FIRST Robotics Competition game in just 72 hours.

The teams are:



From the Midwest, Team AndyMark will be lead by Andy Baker and Mark Koors of AndyMark Inc. From the Northeast, Team Boom Done will be captained by Joe Johnson of legendary team Chief Delphi 47, leading a team of talented engineers. From the Southeast, Team Ri3d 1.0 will be captained by none other than Cute Baby.

But this aint no kiddy stuff.. The teams will be competing for the “Cute Baby Cup” (name pending) to see who built the best robot. Team’s will be judged on 3 categories:

Viral Outreach: The number of video views, tweets and followers they attract.
Viewer Votes: Vote for your favorite, for whatever reason you want. Best robot, most effective use of a falafel, or bribery… Literally anything goes.
Judged Panel: A panel of professional judges ( to be named later ) will review the designs and decide on their choice as winner.

We'll post more updates here and on Robotin3Days.Com and as we near the competition if you want to stay up to speed follow us on Twitter or Facebook @Robotin3Days or subscribe to our YouTube channel.

[Hallry]

YESSSSSSSS!

[Steven Donow]

5 robots built by 5 of the top mentors in FIRST in 3 days...someone needs to do a sixth



Now that I'm in Mass now, I think I'm gonna have to declare allegiance to Team Boom.Done

[AllenGregoryIV]

So we just going to make build season 3 days now? This is the very exciting news. I need to buy at least 3 more monitors to have one for each of the live 72 hour builds.

Thanks for starting this and making it even better, keep up the great work.

[mrnoble]

This is the very best possible news. Following this will come in second only to actually building with my team this year. Thank you all so, so much!

[jblay]

Love it. Love it so much.

Won't the AM people have an advantage cause they know the game a little early?

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by jblay

Love it. Love it so much.

Won't the AM people have an advantage cause they know the game a little early?

Andy and Mark aren't the only two employees; I'm sure that game pieces are stocked at their warehouse, but it's not out of the question that they could have all that handled by other employees.

[PayneTrain]

This poor kid is gonna wake up in like 10 years and wonder why there is a trophy named after her.

[Chris is me]

This is five groups of the smartest minds in FRC, testing out a wide variety of ideas for simple and effective robots. It doesn't get better than this. 2014 is going to be one of the most competitive years ever.

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by jblay

Love it. Love it so much.

Won't the AM people have an advantage cause they know the game a little early?

Thanks, Joe. This is a good question.

The AndyMark people on the design team for our robot in three days effort do not know the 2014 FRC game. We do have a head start in knowing about the Kit of Parts drive chassis (aka. AM14U), and parts in FIRST Choice.

Therefore, our team will be using the AM14U chassis and also as many Kit of Parts items as we can to create mechanisms and robot assemblies.

I'm pumped about this effort and excited to be working with a group of excellent designers and fabricators to help make AndyMark create a competitive robot within 3 days. However, I am bummed about not being able to watch the other teams as they build their contraptions. Maybe we can taunt them along their way and have some fun with this!

Andy B.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Andy Baker

Therefore, our team will be using the AM14U chassis and also as many Kit of Parts items as we can to create mechanisms and robot assemblies.

To make things more realistic for the average FRC team, what kind of resources will each of the teams be using?

IR3 Creative had resources that I think most teams have (mill, lathe, other manual equipment) + COTS. Will AndyMark focus on all Kit and other COTS parts + Manual machines only? Same question for Boom Done.

Additionally, will the teams be working towards creating 3 differing design concepts, or will there be no coordination between them to vary the end result?

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[Akash Rastogi]

This is going to be insane. I'm so freaking psyched about this upcoming season.

Due to the location, I'm gonna have to toss in my support for Dr. Joe's team!

Holy crap I am excited!

[geomapguy]

This is so awesome!! Tough decision to choose between Team AndyMark and Team Ri3D

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by DevenStonow

5 robots built by 5 of the top mentors in FIRST in 3 days...someone needs to do a sixth

Then we can have a bunch of 3-day robot matches. Seriously, this needs to happen.

[MaxMax161]

Now it's all up to someone come up with 4 robots in 3 days..... Or maybe VEXpro decides to throw in another team or two to avoid being upstaged :-)