Forum: General Forum
09-30-2016, 02:13 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,377
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Forum: Control System
09-27-2016, 10:51 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 444
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Forum: Off-Season Events
09-26-2016, 09:46 AM
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Replies: 64
Views: 5,233
Re: 2016 Minnesota Robotics Invitational
8 alliances is 24 teams + backups, or 32 if you do 4 team alliances. Should everyone present make it into the playoffs? Plus, the more teams you have in the playoffs, the longer they take. A...
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Forum: General Forum
09-23-2016, 09:21 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 5,436
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Forum: General Forum
09-22-2016, 12:25 PM
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Replies: 288
Views: 6,601
Re: Registration 2017
The problem is the big crush of people - they need increased availability for about an hour. Set 1st district and 1st regional registration on different days (even 1 day apart) and you'll cut the...
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Forum: General Forum
09-21-2016, 04:02 PM
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Replies: 80
Views: 5,678
Re: STEM vs. STEAM
As another interesting tidbit... I went to lookup the origin of STEM, and it turns out that there are a dozen different acronyms for it. Originally, it was METS.
Anyways, while doing so, I noticed...
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Forum: General Forum
09-21-2016, 10:05 AM
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Replies: 80
Views: 5,678
Re: STEM vs. STEAM
I think everyone has, so far, focused on what's contained in STEM and STEAM. But to me, I want to know what the purpose of the acronyms are.
Why are we concerned with STEM? The general argument...
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Forum: General Forum
09-20-2016, 03:31 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 3,153
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Forum: General Forum
09-20-2016, 02:34 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 3,153
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Forum: General Forum
09-20-2016, 12:16 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 3,153
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Forum: General Forum
09-20-2016, 12:15 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 3,153
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Forum: General Forum
09-19-2016, 02:55 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,271
Re: Robot Cart
The problem is, there's no "one size fits all" solution to carts. Every robot is different in its length and width, wheel positions, or preferred frame support positions, which makes it really hard...
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Forum: Electrical
09-17-2016, 04:19 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 1,836
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Forum: Technical Discussion
09-15-2016, 04:02 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,322
Re: How do you fund your big machinery purchases?
A few years back my team's school built a STEM center addition onto the school. These sorts of additions are fairly expensive, so it actually wasn't that big of a deal to sneak a few thousand (ok,...
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Forum: General Forum
09-15-2016, 02:33 PM
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Replies: 87
Views: 9,833
Re: Most Unlikely Places You've Found FRC People
I can think of two incidents that really apply:
1. At an interview. I have my volunteer stuff listed on my resume, and it turns out the manager had a son on one of the local area teams. Gave us a...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
09-14-2016, 02:56 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 891
Re: Encoder Question / Recomendation
That's an interesting question. The easiest way is to have your programmers write a little test program (or debug code in your real program) that spits out what angle it thinks the arm is at. ...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
09-14-2016, 02:51 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 891
Re: Encoder Question / Recomendation
programming is different. A potentiometer is an analog device. As you rotate the shaft, the voltage of the output changes incrementally. WPILib actually has a rather nice class...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
09-14-2016, 02:46 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 891
Re: Encoder Question / Recomendation
for that use, I prefer a potentiometer, as it's the easiest for getting an absolute position reading out of. And if you set it up correctly, you can get it mounted without too much difficulty.
The...
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Forum: General Forum
09-11-2016, 07:46 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 4,213
Re: Is FIRST about Robot?
Striving for excellence is a part of every good team. But assuming that excellence means winning competitions is a very bad assumption. Just take a look at the record for the 2015 Championship...
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Forum: General Forum
09-11-2016, 11:12 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 4,213
Re: Is FIRST about Robot?
The robot is certainly important. But I don't think that's what FIRST is about. I had the benefit of seeing this thread right before going to the gym, so I had a good long time to think about it...
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Forum: General Forum
09-09-2016, 03:20 AM
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Replies: 350
Views: 23,746
Re: [FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey
Before you get snarky, you might want to realize that I was replying to the content of your post, which was about DCMP, not district events in general. I've been around long enough to know how they...
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Forum: General Forum
09-08-2016, 09:54 PM
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Replies: 350
Views: 23,746
Re: [FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey
You do realize that at DCMP, every team has already been through two events, so they've been inspected twice already and most of them are probably ready for inspection pretty quickly after they load...
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Forum: General Forum
09-08-2016, 09:25 PM
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Replies: 350
Views: 23,746
Re: [FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey
I've never seen one of my 60-team regionals get more than half of the robots passed inspection by lunch on Thursday. I would worry a lot about that trying to make this switch...
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Forum: General Forum
09-08-2016, 07:34 PM
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Replies: 350
Views: 23,746
Re: [FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey
Having a school with students that do both makes you a good person to ask... what's the difference in person-hours/meeting hours between building one VEX robot and one FRC robot? when looking at...
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Forum: General Forum
09-08-2016, 05:14 PM
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Replies: 350
Views: 23,746
Re: [FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey
And that right there was my whole point. There are over 3000 teams in FIRST. Do we expect ALL of them to build two robots in order to try to "keep up" with, as you put it, the best of the best? ...
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