| 5 | | Robots run on electricity. Your mini-bot is small, light, and uses penlight batteries - it's safe; however the FIRST robots you will build later this year weigh up to a couple of hundred pounds, use powerful motors, solenoids, and pneumatics, and run on batteries with enough energy to seriously hurt you. So you need to learn the basics of electricity and how to control it because: |
| | 5 | Robots run on electricity. Mini-bots are small, safe, light, and uses penlight batteries, however the FRC robots you will build later this year weigh up to a couple of hundred pounds, use powerful motors, solenoids, and pneumatics, and run on batteries with enough energy to seriously hurt you. So you need to learn the basics of electricity and how to control it because: |
