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FIRST General Forum
#26

Thank you, everyone, for all your support the past few days. The fun chat conversations and phone calls have turned this into a really great experience so far.

It’s mostly from the spinning wheel. If a frisbee gets “stuck” for any moment of time from being compressed while touching the wheel it will take a little off.

We started to get a lot of similar questions so I went ahead and wrote a post to give a bit of a snapshot of where we are at now. We posted a few more videos today on our https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=](http://www.robotin3days.com/progress-update-sunday-night/)http://www.robotin3days.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/robot_day2.jpg

#27

Oh, I changed it. Thank you for clearing that up for me, and sorry for the mishap, totally embarrassing. But since Bacon seems to have such wonderful mentors, I’m sure the entire team is full of absolutely wonderful people, so I’m now a fangirl of all of you wonderful people.
:]

#28

Just wanted to say how amazing you guys are for doing this. Not only is it inspirational, but your prototypes and videos are extremely helpful to our strategy and design process. Thank you!

#29

Hey guys, we’re well under way with 20 hours left in our 3 day build timeframe. We’re wrapping up our indexer/shooter/chassis integration and moving on to the climbing mechanism.

We just uploaded a new video on our YouTube channel showing the shooter and indexer being integrated and how we are making design decisions to get everything operational.

Tune in at 6pm Eastern Time tonight to our live stream for a Live Chat with the team!

#30

How do we join the chat? I can see the livestream, but no chat window… Ive tried Chrome & IE…

#31

Try refreshing in Chrome, sometimes the chat system we’re using is weird with loading. We added it at the last minute so I haven’t had the chance to work all the kinks out.

#32

Mad props to you guys, I really love the idea. Good luck this year!

#33

Missed our live chat at 6pm? No worries! We’ve gone ahead and uploaded it for you. Tune in, we cover numerous topics and lots of great questions sent in by all of you. 16 hours to go!

http://www.robotin3days.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/livechatimage.jpg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL8nMOoRFtc&feature=youtu.be)

#34

Thanks a ton for the videos of your shooters, they really helped us answer questions we were having about the functionality of our shooter design idea (although we definitely still need to get started on our prototype)

#35

With all due respect, is it possible to make a running FRC robot in 3 days? Including a climbing mechanism, frisbee shooter and pickup system. I ain’t tryin t slam you guys, and the progress you’re making is impressive. But dang, y’all got one heck of a workload.

#36

Wow I love what you’ve done! Especially demonstrating how the frisbees shoot upside down with your shooter design. ::rtm::

#37

I’d argue that a running FRC robot, even a regional winning one, would not need to have all the functions you enumerated.

#38

I agree with DampRobot. If you look at some of our videos explaining our thought process and a lot of the commentary in our Live Chat, you’ll see our reasoning for choosing to do a few things but do them reliably and well.

We’ve just posted a new video to our YouTube page. This one details what everyone’s been asking for: How we plan to lift! It also shows the finished hopper and shooter and how the indexer is working with things.

http://www.robotin3days.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/hanger.jpg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FfFXO-QiHY)

13 hours and 24 minutes to go…

#39

That robot looks awesome. Great job!

#40

They are done!

#41

iR3 sets out to build an FRC robot that is probably rather competitive in 72 hours, and gets it done in 60.

Wow. Just wow. Mad props guys.

-Nick

#42

Did they put in bumper mounts? On the other hand, I guess legality isn’t the number 1 priority, just getting the thing built. Will this (probably highly competitive) machine be competing at any scrimages? I’d love to actually see it in action against other robots. Let’s see what wonders 6 weeks of driver practice can work!

Any way guys, amazing job. I bet this will be forever regarded as the bot rookies should have built.

#43

I wonder how many of these robots are gonna be at competitions? lol

#44

I’ve been checking in on this every evening and I’m really impressed by how quickly the robot came together. I think the videos have also highlighted how the iR3 products would be great for many FRC teams that need the ability to quickly make changes to their robot on the fly.

#45

"Those that say it can’t be done should get out of the way of those doing it” Chinese Proverb