FIRST Robotics kickoff

**Graverunner** · 01-07-10, 06:40 PM

Anyone on a team? I'm guessing noone will make it to the Shire for kickoff but if you watch the NASA feed you might get a glimpse of my fiery moptop.
for those that don't know, FIRST is a robotics competition for highschoolers who are smarter than me.
http://www.usfirst.org/

Dean has a sick house, I've been there.

**_BuRn_** · 01-07-10, 06:45 PM

Man, I had soooo much fun doing FIRST when I was in school.

Made some kick ass ball moving beasts out of some old printers and other related junk.

We never won, you can tell some of the schools obviously have some rich daddies with engineering friends, so I wouldn't call the comp fair, but as far as a learning opportunity, it's huge.

I went on to compete in Battle Bots in Vegas 2001 with my knowledge, got our butt kicked then too, but damn it was fun making fighting robots.
Ill tell you those things are ALOT bigger than you think. 400+ pounds of killer servo-driven metal armed with a pick axe screeching down the street at 30 mph scarred the neighbors a few times.

Good luck! Keep your batteries charged! :9

**i8pptuakamonstercam** · 01-07-10, 06:48 PM

My highschool has a team, but in im college soooooo...

I was in it in the year 2009 we made it to semi finals in our state and it was our first time ever competing ever!!

**Panic** · 01-07-10, 07:21 PM

a lot of my friends are on a team, I'm semi-associated with it

whats this year's challenge?

**Graverunner** · 01-07-10, 07:22 PM

I actually don't know what the game is yet, but I saw the field today. They announce all that saturday.

**Panic** · 01-07-10, 07:22 PM

Originally Posted by Graverunner

I actually don't know what the game is yet, but I saw the field today. They announce all that saturday.

whats the field look like?

**i8pptuakamonstercam** · 01-07-10, 07:24 PM

FIRST was cool the only thing I didn't like was the power hungry nerds who thought everyone elses ideas were shit.

**Ruukil** · 01-07-10, 07:25 PM

I think whiskey does something like this.

**Graverunner** · 01-07-10, 07:29 PM

Originally Posted by i8pptuakamonstercam

FIRST was cool the only thing I didn't like was the power hungry nerds who thought everyone elses ideas were shit.

coolest team I ever saw was these guys who clearly weren't your average science kids and they had a robot that was just four wheels and drove around, they loved that thing so much.

Originally Posted by Panic

Originally Posted by Graverunner

I actually don't know what the game is yet, but I saw the field today. They announce all that saturday.

whats the field look like?

I hate to sound like "oh I can't say but I know", which is how I started the thread I guess ( bad decision on my part), but I really can't say. It isn't a big deal to me since they show it in two days anyway but the FIRST people take it really seriously and it's my dads biggest gig so I'm not taking any risk.