We had a crazy thought this summer during one of our iR3 meetings, what if we built an FRC bot in 3 days and documented the whole thing online?
Well, we decided this was a challenge we could undertake. And in doing so we could help all of those teams out there who don’t have experienced mentors to help quickly prototype parts and figure out the basics of an FRC bot. Compressing the entire build season into 3 days will give these teams an insight that they might not get until the season is over, thus making them more competitive. And its fun.
Fun fact: During the summer, the engineers for FRC and the GDC test out the game by building robots. Some of the robots are completed in as little as 24 man hours!
Schedule is forthcoming, we will try to hit all the major tenets of a build season I.e. Strategize, Ideate, Build, Test and Adjust. Those four stages will most likely be truncated to 3 and supplanted with the more aptly named phased approach: “Don’t Panic”, “Consider Panicing” and “Why havent we been panicing?” We will be putting this schedule together and hope to have it released prior to kickoff.
Why 3 days? Well that’s when most early prototyping and strategizing should take place, so we feel it’ll offer the most bang for its buck. Plus, 6 weeks is just entirely too long and an awful lot of time to be spending mucking about machine shops and practice fields.
Why did we choose 3? As the good book doth say:
First shalt thou begin to create the Holy Robot, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then posteth thou thy Holy YouTube Videos of Antioch towards thy viewers, who being inspired by sight, shall be challenged to do better.
First shalt thou begin to create the Holy Robot, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then posteth thou thy Holy YouTube Videos of Antioch towards thy viewers, who being inspired by sight, shall be challenged to do better.
First shalt thou begin to create the Holy Robot, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then posteth thou thy Holy YouTube Videos of Antioch towards thy viewers, who being inspired by sight, shall be challenged to do better.
One, two, five!.. I mean three!
As the coach of a team entirely based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail, I truly appreciate that quote. I also appreciate what you guys are trying to do for the FIRST community. Good luck and thanks for being an inspiration. We will be watching.
Good luck and I look forward to seeing the results of your endeavor! On a side note, Why did you choose this particular sequence of colors for your logo? I’d usually expect to see either green-yellow-red or red-yellow-green.
I’m wondering if the numerous threes in the game hints, this 3 day challenge, and this challenge’s logo are connected in some way. It’s difficult to imagine since this isn’t an official FIRST post, but now whenever I see a three i start thinking about the upcoming game.
I wish we knew what the game is, but no we are in the dark like everyone else. Although if somehow our logo is related we will all have a good laugh…then get back to work.
