Does anyone have any idea if FIRST is going to publish a field shopping list like they did last year? I know they hadn’t published any materials for building the field prior to 2019 but I was wondering if any of y’all knew if they planned to again this year. Last year, I believe it was released on December 10th. We are a team in Taiwan so sourcing real 2x4’s can be a pain.
They’ve done it before… but it’s unknown if they’ll do it year to year. 90% chance of needing 2x4s, and I’ll say that I have yet to see an FRC team field without plywood of at least one thickness.
I have been out looking for it for the past week now.
Confirmed: Last year, it was blogged on 10 Dec, 26 days before kickoff. We’re currently at 23 days to kickoff.
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Chances of no field elements intensifies
Just went from 0.0001% to 0.0002%!
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If I had to guess what the field elements need, I’d say around 2 sheets of 3/4" plywood, 4 8 foot 2x4’s, a sheet of 1/2" plywood, and maybe a 4x4 post or 2. That should account for 90% of the wood you need for field elements, or at least those should be enough materials to account for most of the game elements.
Battlebots… FIGHT.
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hmm yes…the pit crew is overjoyed
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Last year it was significantly higher than that! The reduced shopping list (field elements only) wood was:
- Plywood: 6 @ ½”, 3 @ ¾”
- Hardboard: 1 @ ⅛”, ¼ @ ¼”
- Lumber: 32 @ 2x2, 3 @ 2x4
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I suggest re-engineering the Team Version elements to better use locally available materials, and releasing the drawings for other Taiwanese and Asian teams to use.
(I hardly ever build the unmodified Team Version elements, because I tend to have different opinions from FIRST’s designers about how closely to mirror the real field structures)
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No bag means that it can be fixed between events.
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All I want this year is a team field design with a scoring location that isn’t completely destroyed after a few hours of solid practice. Oh, and a field design where the interior of your robot does not crash into it because of weird extra deep bumper recesses.
Oh, and if it wasn’t a 16 foot 150lb monstrosity that has to be hoisted up 5ft in the air (2018), that would be cool too.
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That 2014 bliss.
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Sounds like…Recycle Rush. No way to damage your bot, easy to build, and hard to destroy.
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Give me some sweet aerial assault with all of these modern brushless motors for crazy fast impacts…
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Even AA had field elements, though yes, they were simple: high goals, truss, low goals.
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What! I personally LOVED putting that up there and we had NO problems whatsoever doing that!
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High goals: 2x4+ plywood.
Low goals: 2x4
Truss: 2x4+ small plywood + string/rope
Music to my ears…
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The component list was just sent outTeam_Element_Shopping_List2020.pdf (153.7 KB)
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