During Crescendo kick-off my team noticed that FIRST highlighted FIRST alum who played in Discovery Channel’s BattleBots championships. They arranged a Zoom call with two of the creators of BattleBots on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024 at 8pm EST on Zoom. They are going to talk about their backgrounds, how they got started, what it is like to film the show, and take questions that have been pre-submitted (for the sake of time). We are inviting all 8th-12th graders who might be interested to join us. The registration link is: https://forms.gle/9yK4TMztVX27N7yYA
This is awesome! Thank for putting this on!
Are mentors allowed to register? I’ll definitely float this out to the students, but I’d like to watch as well
Greg and Trey are great. They really do care about STEM education and robots, just in a slightly different domain than FIRST.
There’s really a lot more hands-on science and engineering behind Battlebots than “unga bunga robots go smash”. It’s a cool way to keep doing robots outside of FIRST in the offseason or post-high school!
Register as a 12th grader. All cameras–except for the moderators and special guests-- will be turned off (except for maybe a group photo near the end)
Agreed! And the pit culture is very similar to FIRST with teams hanging out and helping each other.
Welcome to CD GForce! I’m gonna sign up here in a bit. Pink Alliance
Exactly this. It really bugs me when my team’s head mentor says that battlebots is “RC cars with armor” or “Not real robots” because they dont use computers. The amount of engineering in those robots is crazy.
Show your mentor the bots that use Lidar or laser distance measures to trigger weapons (like an FRC beam break to stop an intake). I agree battle bots is more of RC cars than robotics because there doesn’t need to be the complex programming, but the engineering involved is crazy. The drivetrain structure to withstand extreme forces, placement of mechanism, motor selection it’s all applicable to FRC but with extreme values and strength needed.
Bots like Bronco for instance there’s also pneumatics/hydraulics (not sure which right now from memory) driven arms. The mechanism for their arm would’ve been great for scoring in the switch and exchange in 2018. A simple lifter arm driven by a single piston. You could have a nice strong intake on the end and quickly lift it up and down. Ofc it’d be out of frame unless you have a cutout which was legal then.
Can non-students join?
We are not ID’ing at the door – so just sign up as a 12th grader.
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