Forum: General Forum
03-30-2015, 01:02 PM
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Replies: 56
Views: 9,187
Re: Eliminations replay card
To be blunt: ugh, no, this [redo card] is a bad idea.
Detractors:
-You're going to make another alliance subject their robots to another match because you screwed up, or you'll play a match with...
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Forum: General Forum
03-30-2015, 12:05 PM
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Replies: 48
Views: 5,452
Re: Competition volume
At Hartford this weekend the DJ/AV guy had the sound for buzzers/bells cranked to an insane level. I politely asked him to turn it down and he did. The rest of the weekend was much more pleasant than...
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Forum: Robot Showcase
03-30-2015, 11:31 AM
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Replies: 81
Views: 23,602
Re: Team 95 Hard At Work - 2015
It really is! Though we need to stock up on some rubbing alcohol for our pit. Gotta clean off everything really well for VHB to work to its potential.
We also used VHB and zip-ties to terminate one...
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Forum: Robot Showcase
03-30-2015, 11:15 AM
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Replies: 81
Views: 23,602
Re: Team 95 Hard At Work - 2015
I forgot to mention the on snafu we had with the IR sensors: the plastic house on them is designed to be shielding, and thus it is conductive. We had to isolate the housings with some VHB from the...
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Forum: Robot Showcase
03-30-2015, 11:03 AM
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Replies: 81
Views: 23,602
Re: Team 95 Hard At Work - 2015
Thank you very much! I was pleased with our alliance making it to semi-finals at such a competitive event, thank you 3146 and 173!
The 6x tote pull is a subset of what we've been working on. In...
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Forum: Chit-Chat
03-30-2015, 09:54 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,196
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Forum: Robot Showcase
03-30-2015, 09:03 AM
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Replies: 81
Views: 23,602
Re: Team 95 Hard At Work - 2015
It was nice to meet you yesterday!
I've got a few reasons why I think moisture intrusion might have been the case:
First, it wasn't as if a few components just rusted, there was a concerning...
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Forum: Chit-Chat
03-27-2015, 01:37 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,196
Re: Indiana Religious Freedom Bill
I think that this is an interesting question, but the thread should be moved to 'Chit-Chat' as it's not DIRECTLY about FIRST/FRC.
The question is about how, if at all, teams should react to a...
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Forum: General Forum
03-27-2015, 09:13 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 3,381
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Forum: Pneumatics
03-26-2015, 11:09 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 4,124
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Forum: General Forum
03-26-2015, 09:33 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 3,375
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Forum: Scouting
03-25-2015, 04:29 PM
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Replies: 76
Views: 24,457
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Forum: General Forum
03-24-2015, 03:41 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,069
Re: Transportation of students to events question
I would suggest that you try to find someone within the school system to help you out.
We encountered the same issue. As it turns out that there was a lot of misunderstanding, ignorance, paranoia...
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Forum: General Forum
03-24-2015, 10:29 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 4,340
Re: When The Magic Works
We were the 3rd pick! 20/195 did for us what 195/181 did for 20 the year prior. We were inspired to do better! I will forever be grateful to 20 and 195 for that.
Boy... it's getting awfully dusty in...
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Forum: General Forum
03-24-2015, 10:24 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 4,340
Re: When The Magic Works
First: congratulations! Your team has achieved a tremendous accomplishment.
Success breeds success. When the magic worked for us check books opened, alliance captains took notice, and my team...
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Forum: Programming
03-24-2015, 09:20 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 3,414
Re: Anti-tipping algorithm
#teamnotippingincode
Good work!
We had a similar implementation, but were able to simplify it to an open-loop control on our arm's drive with a high success rate.
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Forum: General Forum
03-23-2015, 11:57 AM
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Replies: 56
Views: 12,767
Re: Best landfill bots
1519!
1519 has two district event wins and two #1 seeds from mining the landfill every time. It is obvious that they are quite effective at it.
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Forum: Robot Showcase
03-23-2015, 09:04 AM
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Replies: 81
Views: 23,602
Re: Team 95 Hard At Work - 2015
First thing we found when unbagging this weekend was that a lot of moisture had worked its way into the robot bag and rusted a number of bearings and pins. Here is some of the (cleaned up) aftermath....
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Forum: General Forum
03-20-2015, 04:07 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 7,583
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Forum: General Forum
03-20-2015, 01:11 PM
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Replies: 67
Views: 12,881
Re: What are your victories?
My personal objective is for my team to make a robot that is weird but extremely effective and has one feature that virtually no other robot has.
As a team we strive for sustainable improvement...
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Forum: General Forum
03-20-2015, 09:04 AM
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Replies: 74
Views: 8,408
Re: What to use for ballast
Canadian or US? :p
I'd prefer to get some of those coins with holes in them and bolt them down. :cool:
(or... you know... some washers...)
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Forum: General Forum
03-19-2015, 04:40 PM
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Replies: 74
Views: 8,408
Re: What to use for ballast
If you need a triple-redundancy in your ballast you're doing it wrong. I know this was just a hypothetical, but I want to hypothetically discourage teams from opening this can of worms (bag of...
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Forum: Robot Showcase
03-19-2015, 12:39 PM
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Replies: 81
Views: 23,602
Re: Team 95 Hard At Work - 2015
As if this wasn't one of our busiest seasons already, we have registered for an additional district event - Week 5 at Hartford! We've always like the Hartford event for it's proximity, great teams,...
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Forum: Rules/Strategy
03-19-2015, 09:56 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 6,175
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Forum: General Forum
03-19-2015, 09:20 AM
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Replies: 74
Views: 8,408
Re: What to use for ballast
This is how we put it together since we didn't know until weigh-in what our weight situation was.
You didn't think it would be a bad idea to bring an (I assume) raw form of known carcinogenic and...
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