Our team, 1002 the CircuitRunners, has made a FIRST Trading card that we are spreading to teams in hopes of participation. We have the backing of some teams at the two regionals that we will be at (VCU and Atlanta). The idea of the card is to promote your robot to others while still keeping a unified look for FIRST (just like trading cards). You can download the files from http://www.circuitrunners.com there should be a link on the home page. The files include examples, photoshop files, and tutorials on how to change the files and what layers to edit for complete customization. I would also like to know how many teams plan to make cards and hand them out, remeber the more teams do this the better it is!
Sample card: http://www.circuitrunners.com/home/images/tradingcardfront.jpghttp://www.circuitrunners.com/home/images/tradingcardback.jpg
P.S. if you need other help changing the files just IM me AIM SN: shtylman and please participate!
That sounds like a really cool idea, because with a card not only do you have a team number but also a picture of the robot which you could use if you happen to be paired up with that team and you can’t remember what that robot did. Question though, how are you making them or are you sending them to a printing company or something?
RAGE has also done cards like this in the past. I will bring it up to my team to see if they would be willing to make modifications to this card and we can pass them out up here.
We are planning to use laser printers that we have available to us at our school. And we also made a card last year but this year we plan to spread this around and hopefully teams will participate!
I’m not a big fan of the informative flyers that many teams passed out last year. Good scouting entails not only collecting basic information, but a good look at the robot, inside and out, the drivetrain, the structural integrity, and several other factors that a mere card simply cannot encompass. It gets pretty annoying to get harrassed with advertisements come alliance-picking time, too.
This card is not a scouting mechanism. It is meant not to replace scouting but simply to provide nifty handouts and pictures of robots for teams to share.
