5484 just completed our half field this afternoon. Year 11 kick-off in the bag. We always have the goal of ending our Annual Kickoff lock-in with a finished Half Field. We have some changes we are making to how we assemble the Reefs and still have to make the cages, but we are very happy with the way this turned out. This field will be a huge help to all the teams in our area.
We also want to give a huge Shout out to our Sister Team Portage Pythons 9554, CryoFrost 1555, Riley Robotics 3865, & John Adams Robotics 9530 for spending the day helping assemble the field and run through the manual as we all tried to understand this years new game. We couldn’t have done it without you.
We are trying to catch our breath from being submerged for the last 26 hours in our school. Good luck this season from Northern Indiana and enjoy some pictures as our teams celebrate getting thrown in the deep end of this years game.
Just a a cap one of our student designed to take the 1x1 aluminum from the REV field to the 1.5" ish OD size the real field element is. And yes, we printed 36 of those caps over night.
Yeah I can get those tomorrow off the waterjet computer and send them your way. As for the barge itself, it’s made in two halves of 2"x8"x14’ glued and screwed together then the uprights are a 4x4 sandwiched between 2 2x4 and some trus bracing to the floor.
Absolutely! The file is from REV which can be found here.
This link can be found on FIRST’S playing field page. We used FIRST’S files for the human feeds, REV’s for the reefs, and had to engineer the barge, but we’re able to modify the official field files to make the netting system to fit our barge
All it took was getting last place in our first competition in our rookie year. We didn’t build a field that year and believe it was a major reason our robot was designed wrong, “a fundamental misunderstanding of the game.” We swore to never make that mistake again. Year two, however, I think we went to hard in building the field. It took us 2 weeks of building to finish it.
Would you happen to know what you had for a materials list for this? Or for each component? Did you make one or did you find it somewhere and I just can’t find it?
The Reef’s and their base were made off of the REV CNC plans. Which can be found here. They have cut sheets already nested too. It took 6 sheets of 1/2" Plywood and quantity 12 of 1"x1"x 8’. It also called for half a sheet of 1/4" Lexan for the Trusses, we just used 1/2 plywood, but are remaking them with custom 3D brackets we’ll make on our FX10 out of Onyx.
The Barge was something custom. I don’t have all the details. I can find out the measurements when I get back to school tomorrow. We also used about 2.5 sheets of 1/2" to make the parts to hold the netting on top. Modified those files from the official Field Model First Issues.
