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Title: FIRST RObotics
Post by: jamort on February 28, 2009, 10:40:28 PM

Any Idea What comes in the crates there given I know its $6000 of stuff my high schools starting a team next year and I'm going to start learning... ex motors, mcu sensors etc.

I know the radio is pre made code because the code is exetremely hard

Title: Re: FIRST RObotics
Post by: SmAsH on February 28, 2009, 10:49:57 PM

uhh wut? crates? please explain more.

Title: Re: FIRST RObotics
Post by: jamort on February 28, 2009, 10:58:36 PM

The first robtics competition happens annually, each year they send each team two crates of stuff.... I was wondering whats innthe crates and what you need to learn etc. and what I canget along the lines of the stuff so that I could work with that stuff a little bit(a think the main thing is mechanical engineering and programming most of the sensors are bught pre made)

Title: Re: FIRST RObotics
Post by: SmAsH on February 28, 2009, 11:14:24 PM

ohhh, id say parts (sensors, mcu's, servos, chassis material, general electronics...) that sorta stuff. well to work with the stuff you would need a basic knowledge of electronics, but this does depend on how sophisticated the parts are.

Title: Re: FIRST RObotics
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on February 28, 2009, 11:47:53 PM

They tell you exactly what you should get in the crates on the website. Heres this years parts list:
http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles/2009%20KOP%20Checklist%20Rev%20B.pdf


-EDIT-
I just read over the list. They give such awesome freakin stuff now! When I was doing the FIRST competitions in highschool the stuff they sent wasnt as awesome... damn...

Title: Re: FIRST RObotics
Post by: jamort on March 01, 2009, 12:01:03 AM

yeah lol thanks man... think I might get a couple of kits from phidgets and a netbook and servos and work with them fr now

Title: Re: FIRST RObotics
Post by: sean22 on March 07, 2009, 08:37:10 PM

The best improvement this year was the cRIO but the parts were expensive were in debt again.