Forum: Championship Event
05-01-2015, 10:33 AM
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Replies: 136
Views: 23,111
Re: Town Hall Meeting Video
More precisely, they are devaluing competition. Most teams don't win, but all teams compete. A high level of competition is (IMO) one of the most powerful tools of inspiration that FRC has.
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Forum: Championship Event
04-30-2015, 05:59 PM
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Replies: 41
Views: 15,049
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Forum: General Forum
04-30-2015, 05:37 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 15,014
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Forum: General Forum
04-29-2015, 07:43 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 8,368
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Forum: Technical Discussion
04-29-2015, 01:31 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 5,034
Re: VEX Pro Parts Feedback, 2015
Finding a source of by-the-foot 15mm wide, 5mm pitch HTD belting for our elevator was difficult, as (Out Of) Stock Drive Products failed us and we had to resort to calling various distributors around...
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Forum: General Forum
04-28-2015, 10:23 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,032
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Forum: Technical Discussion
04-28-2015, 04:17 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 4,948
Re: Localization of A Omni-Directional Robot
Do you want the sensors to be mounted on the robot (and thus sensing the environment - floors, arena boundaries, etc.), or fixtured to the environment (and thus sensing the presence and/or location...
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Forum: General Forum
04-28-2015, 04:15 PM
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Replies: 79
Views: 14,663
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Forum: Programming
04-28-2015, 04:09 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,392
Re: Loop timing crio vs. roborio.
I posted about an issue in the Java implementation here (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1477882&postcount=17). The actual task was not using a hardware interrupt for timing, but...
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Forum: Championship Event
04-28-2015, 04:00 PM
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Replies: 41
Views: 15,049
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Forum: FRC Control System
04-28-2015, 01:48 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,900
Re: 2015 RoboRIO/Control System Feedback
We ran into the first issue at CVR...the problem is that the scheduleAtFixedRate() method schedules execution relative to the timestamp of the first execution (and the RoboRIO initially assumes it is...
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Forum: General Forum
04-27-2015, 03:11 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 4,326
Re: Achieving The Pneumatics Bshoooo
I usually hear this with very small bore cylinders with no flow restrictors. In other words, I think it has to do with the velocity of the cylinder rod.
But I could be totally wrong.
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Forum: Championship Event
04-27-2015, 02:50 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 10,149
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Forum: General Forum
04-27-2015, 02:25 PM
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Replies: 79
Views: 14,663
Re: Cheesecake: How far is too far?
IMO, we should just limit it to parts that enter the venue as COTS. Easy to understand and enforce, still allows for many useful types of cheesecake, but it kills the "we build a mechanism and you...
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Forum: General Forum
04-27-2015, 02:15 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 8,199
Re: Fastest Possible Canburglar
I heard about this, double checked all the pertinent rules, and then grinned ear to ear. I'll let you post the details, but I was definitely blown away by your creativity.
One interesting aspect of...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
04-27-2015, 02:06 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 4,675
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Forum: Championship Event
04-27-2015, 01:17 PM
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Replies: 136
Views: 23,111
Re: Town Hall Meeting Video
Unfortunately (and as expected) this town hall went exactly like every other town hall I've ever seen or been to.
The people in attendance have already self-selected for being particularly...
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Forum: General Forum
04-27-2015, 12:50 PM
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Replies: 69
Views: 11,402
Re: 2015 Lessons Learned: The Positive
Ditto the new control system. A huge improvement over cRIO, and I'm sure it will only get better (nits were delays in establishing DS<->Robot communications, and some minutiae in the new Java...
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Forum: General Forum
04-27-2015, 12:46 PM
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Replies: 211
Views: 38,656
Re: 2015 Lessons Learned: The Negative
The only thing I disliked was how long the DS<->Robot communications took to get established (I previously have called this "mDNS issues", but Greg McKaskle later clarified that the issue is more...
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Forum: General Forum
04-26-2015, 04:47 PM
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Replies: 69
Views: 11,402
Re: 2015 Lessons Learned: The Positive
8 alliance Einstein was awesome.
It was cool to see some very effective robots from outside of North America throughout the event and on Einstein.
The game presented some interesting technical...
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Forum: General Forum
04-26-2015, 04:45 PM
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Replies: 211
Views: 38,656
Re: 2015 Lessons Learned: The Negative
The game was terrible to watch - by far the worst I have seen during my 15 years of participation in FRC. The only periods of excitement were the first few seconds (and occasionally the ensuing tug...
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Forum: Championship Event
04-26-2015, 04:02 PM
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Replies: 132
Views: 35,550
Re: 2015 Carson Division
A couple corrections:
In the first match, 973 drive all the way into the driver station wall and cut off our auto due to a software glitch. We missed the 20 point tote stack as a result. Then at...
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Forum: General Forum
04-25-2015, 11:44 PM
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Replies: 110
Views: 23,185
Re: The cheesecake runaway
I can only applaud teams for their ability to work within the rules and come up with both effective and creative cheesecake recipes for Recycle Rush. 1114 and 148 had two of the best, and I wish we...
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Forum: Championship Event
04-25-2015, 09:15 PM
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Replies: 173
Views: 54,088
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Forum: General Forum
04-25-2015, 09:11 PM
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Replies: 187
Views: 30,954
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