[EWCP] Video Presentation - Brave Little Toaster to Scoring Machine
 

Join FIRST mentors Andrew Schreiber and Chris Picone (via videoconference), Wednesday November 20th at 9pm EST at Tampa Hackerspace (3104 N Armenia Ave Tampa, FL 33607) for a two-part presentation - Brave Little Toaster to Scoring Machine: Fielding a Competitive Robot on a Budget. The focus of this presentation is to help teams use mathematics to determine effective strategies as well as provide tips on building simple and effective solutions to game challenges.

These are expanded versions of conference talks given at Championship this year and are free to attend. Be aware that seating is limited at the space, there is a fair bit of room but we don't have more than 30 chairs.

The presentation will be live streamed across the country world (link will be posted at fb.ewcp.org) and will run approximately 2 hours.

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And obviously, if you aren't in the Tampa area you're more than welcome to join via the video stream :) This is our first time doing multi point video streams like this but we'll be doing our best to make sure it's recorded and available for teams after the fact too.

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No love for the Canadians or other international teams, eh? :rolleyes:

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Nah, screw those guys :P

Sorry, I originally wrote the blurb while sitting at work and I have to keep a pretty US-centric mindset there. Obviously all our international friends are more than welcome to join.

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Sounds like a great presentation. Looking forward to hearing it.

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Just a reminder that this presentation is tonight at 9 PM Eastern time! We won't have a link to the webcast until about 8:30, so check our Facebook page or here around then for more information. Should be pretty great!

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I think this cast has the potential to help a lot of low-resource teams, mine included. I'd suggest everyone who knows a team who could benefit from this information share the cast with them. The knowledge will be invaluable.

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I'll also toss a link here and on the Twitterz… I know how to social media! ::ouch::

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiImNNu32qI

Holy crap, I think I figured this out.

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Gotta say it, manual machines can hold .001" tolerances. The myth they can not needs to die.

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The machine may but the person may not be able to.

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My apologies, I didn't mean to perpetuate this. I was just trying to contrast good CNC machines to old / worn / shoddy manual machines. Plenty of great manual machines can hold tolerance with a trained operator. Thanks for keeping us honest!

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I think that manual machines can get even a better precision than that. CNCs have their minimal unit as the step, of their stepper motors, unlike us!:D

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Chris and Andrew,
Thanks for the presentation this evening. Good stuff.

I would like to see an example Monte Carlo analysis in Excel format if you have one. I've used Monte Carlo analysis at work for estimating contingencies, but I'm having difficultly envisioning how to run the analysis for FRC scoring.

David

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I'll see if I can find one, if not I'll try to make one over this weekend.

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Better CNCs(any of the ones that you would be able to get better than .001 precision on) use servos. From what I have heard, to get better than .001 you need to start accounting for temperature. A human cannot do this.