Did you know that's a very close copy of the Mars helicopter planned for the upcoming NASA mission? Mars' atmosphere is only 1% that of Earth's. But it has only 1/3 of our gravity and the blades spin at a crazy high RPM to fly. Amazing technology! www.nasa.gov/press-release/mars-helicopter-to-fly-on-nasa-s-next-red-planet-rover-mission
We just noticed that the crater on the video is to the right of the drivers, however...... on the online FTC game manual the crater is to the left of the drivers box. We are going along with the online game manual views.
@FIRST Tech Challenge Urgent question, How far above the playing field is the Anchor point for the Lander Support Bracket? I cannot find it on any other website.
I don't think FTC would put teams in such a sink-or-swim game, a lot of teams would be in over there heads in a water game and would flood First with complaints
Can anyone find out the dimensions for the lander? Andymark has just the box dimensions and the leg dimensions, but the leg isn't vertical in the video. Where's the latch in relation to the sides? FTC needs to add exact dimensions for teams who can't afford to spend $275 for a real one.
FIRST really needs to get some new game designers who are creative. The competitions in recent years have all been relatively the same concepts with only tiny changes. Res-Q was slightly different and the teams complained because then they had to come up with new ideas on how to meet the competition requirements. FTC game design has become extremely stale, and lack of innovation allows veteran teams to easily dominate the competition when they can simply recycle design concepts and don't have to innovate.
It's something visual for the audience. Previously, there was a climbing endgame once every three years in FRC. We've had it every year since 2016 now.
ATTENTION EVERYONE!!! The game animation is wrong in respect to the positions of the craters and team depots. If you compare the animation to the game manual, they are different! -4634 FROGbots
I find it sad that whoever made this video spent more time thinking of ways to intentionally make it feminine and girly than they did lining up their collision boxes to avoid models clipping through each other. They've replaced focus on the objective quality of the video with focus on making a political statement about gender.
Boi shut yo sensitive ass up. They had a couple more girls in the intro video and that's legit the only thing related to femininity in this video. And how is that even connected to the animation quality? And it's hard to say this animation is objectively worse, considering last year the people and ground were untextured and the clipping was hardly noticeable. Not everything is connected to partisanship, and anyone who tells you some trivial shit is a political statement is either deliberately trying to delude you or radically extreme in there views.
Okay, for one, there is literally one hashtag in the entire video, shown several times: #LikeAGirl, presumably by an all-female team. Can you even imagine the lawsuits that would come up if someone tried to start a male-only FTC team? That's almost as political as the phrase "Make America Great Again" is. Why not #OMGRobots, or #FRC, or #RoverRuckus or something that actually promotes the theme? Second, that team's mascot is a female gender sign. What kind of person (girl or otherwise) who is legitimately interested in robotics wants to have their team represented by a symbol of their gender instead of what they are interested in doing: building/wiring/programming stuff? If you want to argue about gender, go into politics or social justice, not robotics. Finally, the font at 7:45 is the most cringeworthy thing I've seen all day. Purple on pink in cursive version of comic sans? yuck dude... As far as the quality of the video goes, the objects are clipping through each other like a collisionless 3D video game at 4:55, 5:55, 6:41, 6:45, 6:47, and 6:55. I couldn't care less how many girls there are in the beginning of the video. All I'm saying is that there was someone at the table when this was planned out whose main goal was to make it as girl-friendly as possible, but clearly there wasn't anyone who wanted to make a decent reveal video like this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VqOKzoHJDjA.html
@@davidharmeyer3093 Perhaps I missed it, but in the video I did not see any hashtags, team logos, or mascots, let alone feminine ones. If your point is that the people who filmed this have those logos/mascot/hashtag, I don't see how that is relevant to this video since they don't appear in it. I agree that font at the end is terrible, but it could just be chalked up to artistic design- the planet colored purple to go with the red and blue teams (as the ground was purple in last year's kickoff too), and cursive to emphasise the robot drew it with it's tracks. I also agree the quality of the video is objectively worse than the FRC one you linked, but that's not a fair comparison- this year's FTC kickoff is still around the same quality as last year's FTC kickoff video, which seems like a more reasonable measure of improvement. And even if it did have a political statement, I don't see how that would be related to the production quality (e.g. clipping issues)- how much budget would it cost to change a hashtag or mascot that they couldn't fix animation flaws?
