First Updates Now: Recent Episodes
Tyler Olds and Crew
All shows air (unless otherwise specified) on Tuesday's at 8:30 EST.
First Updates Now podcasts focus on the latest and most popular news, discussions, people, and events in the FIRST Robotics Community.
Current Shows are Candidly Speaking, Recap, and Spotlight
FUN Spotlight Episode 2 - AndyMark
Guests: Mary and Andy Baker https://andymark.com
Mary and Andy come into the spotlight to talk about the origins, history and what's to come for AndyMark including the trails of owning a business, their new SDS partnership and release dates for FTC and FRC Products.
Also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/ouTHndn3daI
This video is supported by Stryker Careers https://careers.stryker.com and MSOE https://msoe.edu/visit
0:00 Pre-Intro
1:21 AndyMark Intro
2:06 Tyler Shares his First Memory of Andy
4:53 How AndyMark Got Started
9:40 Getting Through Pain Points
12:15 Key Moments in AndyMark
15:49 Branching Outside of FIRST
20:35 FTC Game Design and Supplier
24:31 Andy Goes Solo in AndyMark
28:37 Baker Family Values
32:35 Moving to a New Facility
34:54 Future Outlook and SDS Partnership
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FRC Round Up Episode 10: Heard, but not Seen. Guest: Cory Walters FRC 2767
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0:00 Intro
2:05 Stop Yelling Robot
11:15 IRI 2022 Recap
24:34 Do We Need New Air Tanks?
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Pilot Episode 1 of FUNdamentals - FRC Robots on a Budget with guests from FRC 1756 Argos and FRC 3357 COMETS.
Host: Syke Leake
Co-Host: Allen Gregory
Producer and EiC: Tyler Olds
0:00 Pre-Intro
1:26 Intro
2:30 Time and Monetary Management
13:33 3357 Budget Dive
37:10 1756 Budget dive
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FRC Round Up Ep 9: Queue the Inflation
Guest: Marshall from FRC 900
Topics:
0:00 Intro
2:13 Remembering a Mentor Lost
4:52 FRC Queue
15:21 Stryker Spotlight
16:16 Inflation for Teams in 2023
27:46 Kettering University Spotlight
28:57 Cheap KoP Wishlist
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FUN Spotlight Episode 1 - Rainbow STEM Alliance
Available on YouTube https://youtu.be/tx5xdCA86Go
Guest: Jon Kentfield - President and Co-Founder https://www.therainbowstemalliance.org/
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Ishaan and Tyler break down and rank the top Freight Frenzy Ri30H/Quick Builds. Up your game by becoming a member of FUN Nation! Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJUknE5JjilAfNnmbvr22Q/join or subscribe at https://twitch.tv/firstupdatesnow Join the FUN Discord to keep the conversation going at https://discord.gg/firstupdatesnow 0:00 How teams are rated 3:16 Rank #11 4:33 Rank #10 5:46 Rank #9 6:39 Kettering.edu Shoutout 8:00 Rank #8 9:29 Rank #7 (Tyler says 6) 10:48 Rank #6 12:17 Rank #5 13:56 Rank #4 15:26 careers.stryker.com Shoutout 16:09 Rank #3 18:26 Rank #2 20:08 Rank #1
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Nick and Kevin from AndyMark breakdown their input into the Freight Frenzy game and field and also discuss new products released and upcoming from AndyMark. Up your game by becoming a member of FUN Nation! Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJUknE5JjilAfNnmbvr22Q/join or subscribe at https://twitch.tv/firstupdatesnow Join the FUN Discord to keep the conversation going at https://discord.gg/firstupdatesnow
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0:00 Intro
0:47 FIRSTGeneral Updates
4:32 Stryker Sponsor Spotlight
5:17 FTC Updates
7:24 FRC Updates
12:22 Ending
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Guest: Kyler from baseBot.co
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Guest: Jackson Isenberg FTCLib
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Guest: Don Bossi - FIRST President 2013-2019
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Guest: Tyler Veness - FRC 3512 & FRC Discord Programming Guru
Hosts: Marshall Massengill & Tyler Olds
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Guest: Tyler Veness - FRC 3512 & FRC Discord Programming Guru
Hosts: Marshall Massengill & Tyler Olds
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Guest: Jon Kentfield - Rainbow STEM Alliance
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2020 Virtual Maryland Tech Invitational V-MTI
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Guest: Tyler Holtzman FRC 2056
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Guest: Adam Heard FRC 254
Hosts: David Powers and Tyler Olds
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Headlines:
WVROX is cancelled - IRI is working on options for July?, other off-season events
Chairman’s vs. Engineering Inspiration What CAD program will your team use in 2021
Paul Copioli assumes new position after acquisition
FIRST Signing Day FTC Game Teaser - June 4th
xRC Simulator adds VEX and 2 more FRC Robots.
Robots to the Rescue - Friday 7:30pm eastern
Extended discussions:
Will we see any Off-season events in 2021?
Chairman’s vs. Engineering Inspiration - Is the 50/50 split weird?
Guest Interview: Andy Baker - Impacts to AndyMark with announcement of Infinite Recharge Extension, AndyMark survey and more.
Trivia - Call into the FUN Discord (discord.gg/firstupdatesnow) for a chance to win the current take from FUN jackpot (currently $30 Amazon Gift Card).
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Discussions on no more stadium closing ceremonies and what it will mean for FTC Changes to
Judging: Feedback and the Connect Award FTC
Interview and AMA with FTC 10435 Circuit Breakers
Trivia: Faceoff against one of the hosts in a 1v1 trivia.
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FTC Recap covering events that feed into the Houston Championships
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Kristine is joined by the Open Alliance teams 2826 and 6328 to talk about the Infinite Recharge build season.
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In this episode we see the prices set by our 6 contestants for the FUN Pick'em Draft. Some teams were sold for great value while others went for an overpriced amount.
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MSC now has 160 teams and 4 divisions! Tips and tricks to survive the last week of build season and beyond. Build recaps with FRC133 BERT and FRC5036 The Robo Devils. Kristine draws a famous 2016 Stronghold Robot.
Guest: Ben Martin from FRC225 TechFire
Hosts: Justin Montois, Mike Starke, Tyler Olds Producer: Nik Olsen