Psyche out your opponent with LEDs (8727 Glitch 2.0)

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This past spring I attended the FRC North Carolina State Championships and got to talk to a bunch of the teams. If you've never heard of FIRST Robotics, you're in for a real treat, because this competition is AWESOME. (If you haven't seen the hub video for all these interviews, check it out first!    • The annual engineering puzzle with 3,...  )

These teams, thousands of them, have only about 2 months to design, build, and test robots to play a brand new game before the competitions begin, and then their work is put to the test! It would be a lot for any professional engineer, but these kids are still in high school! It's pretty incredible.

This video is the complete pit interview with FIRST Team 8727. Enjoy!
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To join or support team 8727:
www.glitch8727.com/
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If you're interested in finding a team or attending an event, here's the official team search from FIRST:
www.firstinspires.org/team-event-search
And if you want to know more about any specific team (like a link to their website) you can probably find it on Blue Alliance:
www.thebluealliance.com/
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This is a world map that shows events and teams. I'm not sure how accurate it is because it doesn't look official, but it's a lot easier to search by eye! (and it also doesn't include the other FIRST programs like FLL and FTC (FRC was featured in the video))
frcmap.com/
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If you're looking to help a team as a mentor, volunteer, or sponsor:
www.firstinspires.org/support
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Music in this video:
I Dunno by grapes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626

All Comments (21)
  • To join or support team 8727: www.glitch8727.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ If you're interested in finding a team or attending an event, here's the official team search from FIRST: www.firstinspires.org/team-event-search And if you want to know more about any specific team (like a link to their website) you can probably find it on Blue Alliance: www.thebluealliance.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ This is a world map that shows events and teams. I'm not sure how accurate it is because it doesn't look official, but it's a lot easier to search by eye! (and it also doesn't include the other FIRST programs like FLL and FTC (FRC was featured in the video)) frcmap.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ If you're looking to help a team as a mentor, volunteer, or sponsor: www.firstinspires.org/support
  • When I saw mission critical RGB I thought they might be blasting the field with narrow bands of light to mess with color registers on other bots.
  • @JonathanKayne
    When I saw an alpha Phoenix video about FRC, I wasn't expecting it to be about GLITCH! Back when I was in high school I was on the original glitch team when it was founded
  • Aw man this is a huge nostalgia trip. I haven't thought of FIRST since high school robotics. We didn't have a lot of the tools we have access to now but the hacker spirit of making stuff work with what you have never fades.
  • @JonBonCat
    Wow. They mentally ripped apart every attribute and thought "what else could it do for us? What other parameters can it meet?" That's extremely impressive. Great questions, and great answers! Cheers!
  • @zabridges
    Very cool, I signed my kids up for the First Lego League after watching these videos.
  • This didn't exist when I was in school. The best I had was a course in uni where we had to program a little "lego"-style robot to not run into a wall. I am SO jealous of today's kids.
  • @MakerBees333
    We got out the legos at homeschool today so we can gear up for their lego league. 😁 thank for reminding us to look into joining.
  • if youre fermiliar with the frc game for this year you probably know about the high level teams that can score like 5 balls in the autonomous period. when my team was in sacramento we cam across a rookie team that was nowhere near the level to do this and knew it, so instead of having a normal one or 2 ball auto like everyone else, they positioned themselves near the line and rolled their preloaded ball directly into the other teams area hoping to screw up their high performance auto. it usually worked
  • @sixty502
    YES! I was hoping you’d do multiple videos on this trip.
  • I was a student on team 900, the Zebracorns. It was such an awesome experience going to these competitions. Keep it up!
  • As a 587 Alum, seeing any new eyes being brought into the scene is awesome!! Keep up the great content.
  • @Wheres_Wald0
    That’s my brother^^^ such a fun way to experience technology (He’s the driver) I was at unca and pembroke so I’m assuming this was the final one
  • @DeenBoi
    osu! players going wild over the team number
  • I remember when my team cheesed a tournament by just jamming a ball into the corner of the arena
  • @shrekss
    Ahh this brings me back. Glad to see no parents butting in on answers.
  • This is so cool!!! I wish our school got into stuff like this, but at least we did a Rube Goldberg design challenge
  • @RecursionIs
    Shout out to the Glitch 2.0 mascot 👻☂️
  • i do have to admit that i clicked on the video for the team's number rather than the content itself