Wave Robotics

This is the tumblr of FIRST FRC team 2826 Wave Robotics', from Oshkosh Wisconsin. Expect to see lots of technology, STEM, FIRST, robotics, and science related posts.

[waverobotics2826]

robotics today

half the team: GEARS

other half: FUEL

half of team: GEARS

other half:FUEL

the one kid: climbing..?!

[hugsandstuff]

I’m a theater, art, AND robotics kid, so of COURSE I designed a prom dress with led lights in it and made it from scratch with my mom.

[waverobotics2826]

Happy build season everyone!

If you have any questions, a great place to look is https://sites.google.com/view/firsthelpnow! We’re a participating team and always happy to help!

Good luck!

[beet-soup]

What are you most nervous about for the FRC game this year?

My greatest concern is strategy and the many ways you can score points this year. It’s not Recycle Rush (only one viable design) or Stronghold (breaking defenses was a must).

At its core, I feel that you can either be a gear bot or a fuel bot. There’s not enough time in a match to do both. Ideally, an alliance would have a balance of the two.

Game-wise, SteamWorks looks like a combination of two previous FRC games: Lunacy and Logomotion. So in terms of mechanism design, all we have to look at is the winning designs from those games.

Each team just has to figure out what type of robot they’re most comfortable with.

Anyone else have thoughts?

[tanx3003]

i love how quippy the penalty titles are in the game manual this year

[waverobotics2826]

If you can’t bring your own artisanal rope to competition, field provided will be fine

[waverobotics2826]

“Hi, I’m Jasmine and this is Derek :)”

WHERE’S MATT

[waverobotics2826]

[waverobotics2826]

“Hi, I’m Jasmine and this is Derek :)”

WHERE’S MATT

[tanx3003]

pushy pushy

[solacetic]

I arrive at the First Steamworks Competition

Fuel: Collected Gears: Installed Airship: Out

[waverobotics2826]

I AM FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM THE AIRSHIP

[maxwellmemes]

Seeing Woodie wear the LGBT+ of First pin makes me so happy! Nice to know that FIRST is supportive of all young creators regardless of of how they identify.

[waverobotics2826]

I feel like FIRST isn’t even trying anymore

We don’t ask for much, and yet it’s been too many years when we’ve been let down... I hate to complain because FIRST has put so much work to make real differences in thousands of people’s lives but still. 

All we really want is Dozer (plowie) in the game animations. It would’ve been so easy to turn this

into this

And yet we go another year without our favorite robot helping us understand the rules of the game. It’s time FIRST. For only $0.00 a day you can use Dozer in the game animations consistently and change the lives of at least two (2) robotics students. 

((Just to be clear this was a joke, don’t get upset about this really))

[waverobotics2826]

My inability to get over Stronghold got me like

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Just to illustrate the point that @necromancerbatman made, do not attempt to press the button at the top of the rope before climbing, as that will earn you a red card and a bunch of nasty looks. 

[waverobotics2826]

“Fuel put in the boiler near the very end of the match may not get processed before the airship takes off. Subsequently, the audio clip ‘mmmm whatcha say” will be played to signal lost points”

[tanx3003]

the FIRST Steamworks reveal video but every time they say “robot” it gets faster