What do you do on your team?
 

Just interested to see how diverse the people on delphi really are.. is it mostly programmers who are here? Mostly endeffectors? drivetrain?

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I think it's mostly computers and webmaster on Chief Delphi but the mechanical designers come to see what other teams are doing.

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you may want to add video to the list. many teams have dedicated video people like mine.:D I am the video team leader for my team and i also help out with electrical and some prototyping. alot of people assume that since I am a video person i kno2 nothing about actually building robots:(

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im not a programmer im new to the team. As a team we talk about strategy engineering fund raising and communication :(

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On our team, everyone sort of helps with everything since we're (relatively) small and not everyone comes to all the meetings. People are starting to specialize more this year, though.

Personally, I deal with the overall strategy and the awards essays, but the strategy makes me want to have a hand in the design and building, as well. So I guess I deal with a little bit of almost everything.

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I'm head of the devices team and also in charge of overall strategy. I'm also the coach at the competitions.

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uuh, well im a rookie so i dont know what an endefficator is

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I'm not a rookie and I don't know what that means.

That being said...

I'm on the Chassis Design/Build team, the Pneumatics build team, and going to be the 675 webmaster soon.

Quite a bit for a second-year member, methinks.

I might even offer to be a Human Player, too.

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Safety Captain in da' house! :D

I love being a safey captain but I also stretch into mechanical stuff (when I'm in the mood ;) )

How many other safety captains are there following chief delphi? :)

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I'm a programmer and I wish i was a safety captain because last year i was yelling at people left and right about safety glasses that includes mentors,team members, visitors, and etc. :cool:

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So....what was that about CD being just programmers? I think that most people are either a mix of everything or just fall under the catagory of "other" because their division is not on the poll. I for one really classify as "field builder." I build the mock field every year. And I'm drive train too (I guess).

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an endefficator is the device that actually interfaces with the gamer piece. for example a claw or a grabber of some sort.

again more proof that as a video guy i still know a lot about robots :yikes: ( see first post)

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lol wow that was really lame and funny lol

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So another name for endefficator is "maker of the robot's arm?" Why not just make it that simple for us vocab challenged people.

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EVERYTHING I POSSIBLY CAN!!!

And if I don't know how, I'll learn! :D

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We are a small, student ran and operated team. We only have two "teacher sponsors", who aren't engineers or anything, just a Physics and a Biology teacher, interested in FIRST and robotics in general. Over the years we've had engineer mentors from places such as Lockheed and Drexel U, but general the robot is 95% designed and built by us.

I am the head "engineer", I guess you could say. I design pretty much the whole bot in CAD (after an extensive team input of design and strategy), then I'll start making parts myself and have some other people do it too. This year I took on the chassis and half the manipulator, so it's my responsibility to make sure those are modeled, parts are ordered, and the thing gets built properly. My "partners" will be helping be, as well as building other parts of the robot.

Also when all of my building is done, I will be doing the robot electronics with another person.

And when the whole thing is done, I'm the head driver.

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Mentor, with an electrical, mechanical, and pnuematics background. I will move around and help out where needed. I don't know/do programming though.

I've always been a mentor. Team 237 didn't exist until after I graduated.

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Hi, Im new to the forum. My team is 1926 from Chinle AZ. We have a small team so I do alot. Im in charge of designing the whole robot (except for the arm) on paper! Im also in charge of the strategy and odds and ends.

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I don't design, but I help out with Spirit & misc tasks that are mundane to the engineering elite. From helping spirit to keep the everything on track, to planning & provide physical labor for our unique Scrimmage at the end of the 6-week build time. I thrive on what others think is fodder. This year is no exception for Aces High #176 in planning the annual Scrimmage to "test" robots & fields alike. We want to make this years' scrimmage better than ever!

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I joined my team this year and they made me electrical student leader. They want to make this the year of 294's good wiring ^^

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Marc, you are a NEM - non-engineering mentor. Visit the NEMO website to learn more about us. NEM's rule! :)

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Nope. End effector: the device on the end of the robot's arm (or lift) that allows the robot to do what you want, such as pick up a tube. Also called a manipulator.

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I try to apply my knowledge as much as possible on my team, and my strengths happen to be in areas that no one else is interested in, such as writing Chairman's and organizational stuff. Our project management turnaround is working out pretty well this year, and everyone appreciates the new organizational techniques. I also try to do a bit of everything except software, which is completely foreign to me....but I'll try to learn eventually.

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our team is also very small. So I am involved with everything. from design to build to webpage design, to t-shirts.. lol It's almost too much:p :p but its diffenately fun!!!!!!!

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Some people say subs, some say grinders. Some say bubblers, other say water fountains.

On this list, there is nothing about communications or promotions. Although I do some designing and prototyping, that is mainly my job, fundraising. My job has varied over the years, but in general, I've done communication/spirt type stuff.

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well...........this is my first year on frc and i am doing programming :D:cool:

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There really needs to be an all of the above category, because I wrote the letters to send out to potential sponsors, my team is using my lift design, i'm designing and building the chassis/drivetrain, babysitting the immature underclassmen that can't work out their differences, learning C, sometimes helping with the field, and sometimes helping with whatever else needs help.

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The problem with having an "all of the above" catagory is that a lot of people would click on that. I would like to think that every person on your team is involved (at least in SOME aspect) with every part of the FIRST season. I'm pretty sure that everyone has at least helped SOME with everything.

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I'm officially the leader of the endefficator team, even though I'm a rookie. Somehow, it worked out so that the entire endefficator team is rookies, and I got voted leader. I've been working a little bit on everything though, since about half of our already small team is going to be leaving next year, leaving only one person with more than this year's experience

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This is my second year on the programming end of things although everyone on the team generally helps in the designing process. If I had anymore time to devote to FIRST i'm sure i would be involved in more aspects of the robot but i have classes to pass and atleast 4 hours a day for that pesky little thing called sleep.

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I've done almost everything on that list at some point or another (I haven't been a mentor, obviously) at varying skill levels. Freshman year I did animation, myself and joshsmithers designed this years end effector, I've done some CAD here and there, I program on occasion, I did a good deal of the wiring last year, I've been safety captain (the "other"), did a lot of the drivetrain last year, I'm not quite sure what "documentation" is but based on my best guess, I've done that too, and I have done some website work. I find diversifying is very handy for communicating between subteams and such, especially build team to programming team, and drive team to programming team.

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I just mentor the team in the areas of the Chassis/drivetrain build, wiring, and whatever the students need help with. Also when students can't find any work to do I try to get them going on something. This year at regionals I may be coaching the driveteam or just walking around with camcorder taking video of the robot.

I know things are going good when I get to sit back and watch them work ;)

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me and another teamate are incharge of building the field( it takes two people to organize everyone since the field is so dang complicated this year)
well anyway i cut the wood and pvc needed to make the rack, since there are only a handfull of people allowed to use those machines.

im also into programing (just enough to know what is possible when we come up with ideas or modifications for the robot)

I am into drivetrain( one of the few people on the team that can figure out gear ratios and calculate ft/s and such)

I am also into design( i come up with crazy robot designs and game strategies that everyone laughs at, including me)


as you can see im into my fair share of things i would like to get into electronics but it would be a little much as of right now.

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i am the only one who know inventor, so naturally im working on that. and of course designing and that stuff. i also work a bit on electrical, and programming. it also seems that most of team is in programming and animation...

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I'll admit, I'm a little disappointed that this poll focuses mostly on the ROBOT or on the COMPUTER. There are SO many other roles on a FIRST team.

For example, every year I help out with the awards (which I guess is considered "documentation" by this poll), but there's also Scouting and Spirit which are essential for any team. I also work with the Website kids to make sure we have a reliable up-to-date website. Then there's the Events Planning/Fundraising committee and the Records and Business Committee. Again, I guess the latter could go with documentation, but it's so much more than that. A budget and a business plan are very elaborate and deserve their own respect. And the fundraising committee on our team probably works the hardest, having to re-arrange schedules and squeeze dates into inopportune times.

So, I know, as a mentor this makes me a NEM, but there's more to it than that. I love working with the manipulator (we had a lot of fun with various prototypes this year), and I love watching what the kids can do and teach me. This year, I've finally sat down with my dad and learned more about the electronics of the robot. In fact, we spent about 2 hours trying to place them on a piece of plywood so they wouldn't interfere with our gearbox motors or arm manipulator motors.

Today, however, my goal is to get the kids to sit down and finish the outline for their Chairman's submission and design a presentation board for our high school's 8th grade orientation next week. =) Every day brings something new!

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hmm i was thinking that exact thing.

My role on our team is the board member/head of what our team calls Team Identity. I deal with communications type things, award submissions, websites, and (my favorite!) designing shirts, hoodies, and give aways.

Being a board member gives me a leadership role, and i meet with the board members of machining, electrical, financial,captain, etc once a week and discuss what we should plan for the team.

in addition to being in charge of those aspects, i am also the only female machinist on our team. :D

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Is there no option for "ALL OF THE ABOVE" with only 8 people on the team, all of us programmers, and only me with access / skill to work in the machine shop and no tools (except for whats in the machine shop) i end up doing allmost everything.

6-8 hours a day takes a toll on you!

- Bochek

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Mostly unskilled labor, lol.
Right now I'm helping build the arm, and will probably help more with the drive train later...Done a little bit of machining and milling, I think I'll do more of that when I get the hang of AutoCAD software...We have lots of new people(including myself) so we have people just going around and helping with random things..
But yeah..grunt labor FTW!

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I have to agree with BAndchick.

the kids on my sub team do all sorts of things that have nothing to do with the robot. we make all the travel arrangements, feed the crew or arrange to have restaurants feed them, hand out sponsor packets, set up community service and demos, write to legislators, send out press releases, write awards, design t-shirts, choose give a ways, make buttons, make pigs on sticks and plant them in yards (ya gotta see this fundraiser) plan events and update our sponsors.

These kids are also learning strategy, scouting and rules.

But most of the kids on our team do at least touch the robot even if they just rivet something.

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A variety of things, I guess. I work on main design of chassis, as well as transmission and manipulator designs. Everything mechanical is my specialty and I love tools, but I also know how to work basic electronics so ocassionally I'll help there, too.

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i'm mainly doing CAD atm, but i'm starting to dig into the programming end along with starting up the website,while routing out the electronics, mechanical, and layout.

so... basically everything except media.

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I build robots!!! I make the dreams come true with my tools:yikes:

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Mainly I take of the electronics. I haven't really done programming this year because I pretty just leave it to our new programmer while I work with all the prototyping groups. I help research and in a way manage(team updates, deadlines, etc.). Last year I was a driver but I'm not sure if I will be again this year. It'd be cool though because of the energy I get from being a driver, but we'll see as the season goes on.

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way too much....

I'm doing mostly design and CAD now, but By the end I will have designed, fabbed, worked on controls, programming, electrical, assembly and team captain on top of that..... I might sleep one of these days....

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eh, i usually work on the electrical system but, seeing as i'm a senior this year i've turned to making sure people get it right along with me doing more fabrication of parts. o, and i'm still doing some programing.

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But that's not all that we do!

ps: Please attempt to spell correctly. Microsoft word is your friend!

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Can their be an option here for team goofball?

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i manufacture for our team and build the playing field

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CAD / Design Leader

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My team role as a mentor is Go To Guy, you need it I get it. Also at 6' 3'' 285lbs. I am also a great Peace Maker ;) I can assemble, built the field on my former team, fundraise, network with everyone and most of all have FUN!!!!!

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Animation!

And from the looks of it, there aren't many other animators here.

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On my team I fall under the Other. I am the Scouting Captain. It is my job to know everyone and everything at the competition. I help plan the strategy with both of the Martian drive teams before their matches. Think Karthik only not as good at it. Thanks to Chief Delphi I am able to know teams that we should watch out for at each competition.

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i am in devices creating the arm, ramp etc..

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I've always seen it as manipulator=arm, end effector=grabber, but for the purposes of this discussion, that's splitting hairs.

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On our team I basically do the chasis design and builtd, I also do transmission/drivetrain, and electrical. I will also work on other parts when needed.

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Programming's what I do the most, though I've done Animation and am always around to help build a few things with Manufacturing.

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I work with electronics. This my first year, so i dont know much yet...

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My team is in our 2nd year this year. Im the Record keeper, and i also work with writing our newsletter, building parts of the robots (none in particular), and lastly and most importantly i work on leading the team as one of the co-captains.

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There's no option for "Nothing. I just eat." I don't think you are properly representing the population with these limited choices. "Other" is too general.

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well since this is my 1st year doing FRC ive een doing a little of everything...
mainly building and Pneumatics lately.

~Alex~

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considering i am a freshman andi am new to this. I am helping on construction and programming.

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Lead programmer. Sometimes I help on the electrical stuff if they need extra hands.

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My job isn’t list per say



Strategist, General Manger In Training, Public Relations, Conceptions, Gopher (hardware store, pizza, team members ect.) Bible (rule book) keeper and scholar, and if needed I’ll hacksaw, jigsaw, drill, screw, or just about anything we need.

That’s how most of our team works. Every kid on the team is just about able to do anything, but people get specific jobs that they are good at, but you never know when the programmer has to pick up a wrench and mount something, or the mechanical team has to write a letter to a sponsor.

But, everyone mostly sticks to his or her main job, but there are some people like me that have everything to do.

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When I was on McKee H.S. Robotics Team I was turned into a Team Captain - I picked up a little mechanical work during the '02 build season and helped the coaches out by making forms for different things - Permission Slips, Sign In / Up Forms etc....

Like many other teams all the jobs on my old team was open to everybody, there was no reason why there was team members standing around looking at the ceiling. Nobody forced you to do anything you weren't interested in & you could move freely through the committees if you thought you could improve someone elses work.

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mechanical team leader. (scapegoat) but only because i do a lot of the work.