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FIRST Robots: Aim High: Behind the Design

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As a Metor for a FIRST Robotics Competion team (Team 1629) I was eager to see this book hit the streets. There are lots of great robots built for each FIRST competiton, but after they get their three days of fame they are packed away and never seen again.

This book picks 30 such robots and opens them up to show what's inside and how it got there. Creativity abounds, and the range of design solutions for the same game challenge is amazing. The photos are excellent and the supporting design diagrams that the teams provided are wonderfull. It's great to see the transition for hand sketches to 3D CAD renderings.

I'll be spending many hours inspecting the design process that each team used and how their robots went together. What makes it especially great is that out team competed against some of these robots. Now we can see what we were really up against.

All the budding Engineers, Programmers or Industrial Designers out there should take a good look at this book, and then join a FIRST team in your area.

2007 was the first year I got involved in mentoring a FIRST robotics team (Team 1781, 2nd year team). Since I am now hooked on FRC I have been trying to collect as much information possible to further help the team grow. This book has provided plenty of inspiration on design ideas, build philosophies, and prototyping techniques. I would highly recommend new teams and/or mentors read this book as well as anyone else already involved with FIRST or interested in becoming involved.

This book has features on prize-winning robots created for the FIRST competition. Along with sharing the details needed to win the awards in 2006, the information is invaluable for those competing in years to come. In fact, just being able to see the intricate details of so many robots is well worth the money and will knock days off of build times for future FIRST competitors. I highly recommend this book if you plan to compete or already are competing in the FIRST robotics challenges.

Tom
Team 1987 LSNHS Broncobots Mentor

My name is Ellery Wong I'm a team leader/mentor from (Team 191) The Xerox/Wilson X-CATS. The authors of this book did an excellent job translating our detailed write up to clearly convey our teams' goal for design and the strategy of the 2006 competition in our contribution as a Motorola Quality Award Recipient in this book.

Our team is one of the remaining founding teams that have been involved in FIRST since its inception in 1992. My how it has evolved but yet maintained the original focus of using technology and industry professionals as a vehicle to inspire young minds toward the rewards found in being an engineer or scientist. I sure wish I had this when I was in high school.

I highly recommend this since I've competed in other robotics competitions as well and this is more high tech and has been the most rewarding experience I've ever had in my life. I've been as inspired along with all my students.

Our team is honored to be in the first FIRST Robot Book.

You won't regret checking this book out!

This is an excellent book I would recommend not just to those involved with FRC, but any use any aspect of design! This book discusses the strategies and secrets of thirty of the most successful teams of the 2006 FRC competition. This book can help you learn the secrets of a good design process. The book explains not only what these teams did, but the vitally important reason of why (because what was used one challenge may not be good for another).

This is an excellent book providing some of the hidden secrets of some of the best teams in the FIRST Robotics Challenge. It profiles a variety of teams and focuses on different aspects of the teams' design process. For those coaches, mentors and teams that are looking for ideas on how to improve their design processes or gather ideas on how to improve designs, this is a must have book.

This book really takes the inside look at how many of the best Robots are built for the FIRST Robotics competition. If you are learning about Robotics or just like the FIRST, this book will interest you.

This book is an interesting general review, where you can check how roboticians develop their projects, but dont expect enought information to learn.