We’re FTC Team 5257 - this year we won the world championship alongside teams 7013 and 4240.
We’ve been playing with the idea of doing an FTC “Robot in X Time” ever since Ri3D came out last year, and now that they’re doing it we’ve decided to go for it also.
SO - members of FTC Team 5257 will be working from game release (12 pm Saturday Sept 6) to the end of the weeekend (Midnight, Sunday Sept 7) to build a competitive FTC robot.
This build cycle features ABSOLUTELY ZERO MENTOR INVOLVEMENT as we will experiment and show what just a group of committed and bright students can accomplish in 36 hours.
The World Championship was a great challenge and we’ve conquered that - so we felt this would be a logical next step. For FTC teams, we also plan to release CAD, information, specs, etc.
With Ri3D doing something similar, it would be really cool if you two could scrimmage against each other, or meet up and have a best 2 out of 3 or 3 out of 5 series just for fun.
Since this will be done by only students will this be your competition robot this year?
We’d love that idea. I e-mailed Dan Richardson a few days ago when we decided to do this, and he has yet to respond to me.
No, probably not. This 36 hour build session is going to enlighten us tremendously and help a lot with our year and getting started, but we never keep a robot the same for more than a few days. Last year, we changed the robot after every single one of our 5 tournaments, in some cases taking it apart 100% and just rebuilding.
So although this robot will (hopefully) be very competitive and help us and others learn a lot, it’s unlikely that it’ll stay the way it is - although we will likely use parts and pieces of it in our robot.
