Re: JVN Challenge: Record your Season!
 

JVN,

Sounds like fun! our team already puts a lot of effort into documenting every meeting and event on our blog: http://kbotics.ca/blog/

The hardest part looks like publicly documenting what you are working on without giving the idea away. If someone reminds me I'll try and put it all together from the blog posts at the end of the build season, I remember following your facebook posts last year during build and trying to figure out what you guys were thinking.

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For text updates, we've added "Update the team Twitter feed after every meeting" to the website team's responsibilities. (Back when I was in high school, I posted daily updates of about tweet length to the team website, but since then no students have updated those pages...). I'll [continue to] post updates to my Facebook from the meetings I'm present at.

As a corollary to JVN's request, for the 2011 season I'd like to get a screenshot of the current SolidWorks model of our robot taken every day throughout the build season. After ship date I'll compile them all together and have them uploaded to the photo galleries on the GUS website to visually show how our design evolves throughout the season.

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If only that were a problem we needed to worry about....sigh....

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But guys, won't you lose your competitive edge that way? How will you ever win two regionals? :P

this is a joke post - 1726's complete willingness to share is an inspiration and has served them pretty well in the past, their robots earning two regional wins

Re: JVN Challenge: Record your Season!
 

Kickoff is tomorrow! Just a reminder to start logging your build...

-John

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In addition to our detailed team notebook -

blog - cyberblue234.wordpress.com

twitter - cyberblue234

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I'm starting...but I have to reconstruct the first several days, because I forgot to do it. Is everyone else hard at work blogging? :)

http://www.project1726.org/forums/vi....php?f=6&t=691

Re: JVN Challenge: Record your Season!
 

2175 is blogging the build on the team blog:
http://frc2175.blogspot.com/

After seeing the first couple posts I reminded the students that a picture's worth 1,000 words so hopefully most/all posts will be accompanied by a picture from here on out.

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1511 is doing this in several ways (and I love it - being so far away it STILL feeds my addiction ::sigh::)

Started Long Ago:
1511's Forums (over 12,000 posts!)

Started Last Year:
1511's Daily Blog

Started Two Years ago (now open to public):
1511's Engineering Design Wiki

New This Year:
Livestream of EVERY meeting!

Re: JVN Challenge: Record your Season!
 

I have committed to doing a brief description of each day of the TechnoKats build season. This will be done specifically for people who are not familiar with FIRST or FRC, so I am intentionally not going into great detail. The daily messages are going out to an email discussion group. If anyone would like to follow along as I post my short "journalettes", they are presently being archived here:

http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/2011...ry/thread.html

You might guess that they will also begin showing up under a new URL next month:

http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/2011...ry/thread.html

Look for messages written by ghunchu'wI' 'utlh and having a subject line beginning with qoqqoqmey. That's Klingon for "so-called robots". The author's handle might be translated approximately as "hacker emeritus".

Oh, did I mention that I'm writing them in Klingon?

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Elvish is the new Klingon. ;)

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I don't see myself finishing our website anytime soon (read: during build season). We will be keeping our logs on Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/bedfordrobotics

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I'll update through Championship...

jmontois340.blogspot.com

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I just managed to describe a PID control system in Klingon, using terms that I believe someone unfamiliar with the concept would adequately understand. I admit that I wasn't expecting to find the vocabulary quite up to the task, but it turned out to be much less of a problem than I thought.

I challenge anyone to do that in either Quenya or Sindarin. :p

(Not that anyone will appreciate it, but "robotish things - day eleven" should show up at http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/2011.../msg00130.html soon.)

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So how's everyone doing? I've been keeping up pretty well with mine.

http://www.project1726.org/forums/vi...6&t=691&p=4030