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How to climb without gear from the floor to 30 feet off the floor.

Ball got stuck in light fixture and I went up and got it.

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I learned how to compleatly wire (external wiring only, not the box w/ victors and such) in under four hours

2nd skill: how to work on the robot while running to the que line

Not a skill, but a fact I learned:
FIRST would not exist without zip ties

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The value of good scouting.

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I re-learned sheet metal working when I helped build the mount for our camera. I hadn't done anything since 7th grade, so it was a good refresher. I can also now pop-rivet, :rolleyes: .

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Haha... we found this one out last year with our robot.

As for a new skill? Uhh, probably when it came down to the last half-week.. I learned how to live off of Dr. Pepper, Pizza, Chinese, And Only a few hours of sleep... and still have energy to do the same the next day....

Also, I learned leaving the robotics crate infront of a door was a bad idea. We left it there over night.. and the teacher whos room we were using got there before the janitors opened the doors, so he went in through his back door and walked right into the crate... he wasn't very pleasant after that :)

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I tought myself some 3DS max in about 5 hours...

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I got the new skill of learning joy. I designed our drive train this year, and it has had ZERO mechanical issues the entire competition season! Out of our 3 competitions, I only thought about tightening the chains twice, and it didn't reall need it then.

So learning how to do things correctly, so next year we can do even better!

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I learned to check what the materials instead of just using whatever we find.

(during one of matches, what we thought was lex-an broke because it actually was acrylic. It made a mess on the feild :( )

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I learned the true meaning of measure twice and cut once the hard way

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I learned that I have to make sacrifices in what I do and where i am, and that sometimes you have to disappoint some people to keep other people happy. Grade drop is a natural part of the FIRST process, our marketing/PR mentor Janice is awesomeness personified (mother of 3, small business owner, and still able to get us to nationals with barely a penny from our own pockets), and I need a clone of myself.

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"Oh no! I cut the piece of aluminum three times and it's still too short!" :rolleyes:

This year I learned how to get by with only four hours of sleep a night for most of the build season.

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931 learned how to fabricate omniwheels and apply them in a holonomic drive module.

For next year we hope to improve our understanding of when to build and use omniwheels.

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fischer price motors make magic white smoke. oops.

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i learned that when a team uses what they thought to be lexan but was acrylic, when u hit the side of thier shielding it blows all over the field...oops

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I learned my left from my right