Forum: Regional Competitions
03-28-2012, 09:22 AM
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Replies: 45
Views: 9,088
Re: 2012 Boston Regional
This was my second trip the the Boston regional, the first being in 2006. It was great, and not just because we did well in the competition. Boston is a great city with its history, cool...
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Forum: General Forum
01-08-2012, 07:57 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,184
Re: Lessons learned from 2006 and 2001
With the 2001 game, you wanted to balance the bridge with two goals on it, but no robots. Team 71 pushed the goals onto the bridge using arms extended out, mechanically leveled the bridge, spread...
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Forum: General Forum
01-08-2012, 07:49 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,184
Re: Lessons learned from 2006 and 2001
Plaidwarrier, Do you remember the width of the flat part of the 2001 beam that the bridge balanced on? I'm wondering if this year's will be easier, or harder, but I don't remember how the '01 bridge...
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Forum: General Forum
09-24-2011, 11:35 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,503
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Forum: Off-Season Events
07-25-2011, 08:55 PM
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Replies: 314
Views: 79,180
Re: 2011 IRI
Only at IRI....
We had consistently decent alliance pairing, we played well, we didn't break, and we ended up 3-6 in the Q matches. There is no FIRST-related event anywhere that has close to the...
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Forum: Chit-Chat
05-14-2011, 04:57 PM
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Replies: 584
Views: 63,704
Re: What kind of car do you drive??
Do you burn fryer oil in it? A former team member had a similar car, and he used fryer oil from his parents' restaurant. It would coagulate, though, in unusually cold weather here in Florida, and...
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Forum: Championship Event
05-02-2011, 11:54 AM
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Replies: 139
Views: 35,239
Re: 2011 Curie Division
Congrats to 987, 51, and 968 on making it to Einstein.
Phil Lundberg, are you out there? It was good seeing you at St. Louis. Please PM me your e-mail and/or phone #.
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Forum: Championship Event
04-16-2011, 08:48 AM
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Replies: 85
Views: 21,973
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Forum: Regional Competitions
03-23-2011, 10:59 AM
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Replies: 53
Views: 9,383
Re: 2011 DC Regional...
On a related note, does anyone know why the NASA robotics site is dead? I've been trying to check webcasts, but the whole nasa.robotics.gov site is inoperative.
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Forum: Regional Competitions
03-21-2011, 05:30 PM
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Replies: 53
Views: 9,383
Re: 2011 DC Regional...
Sounds great. We'll probably want to enter the "race." Will you have both "stock" and "modified" classes where you can use a 20 volt battery?
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Forum: Chit-Chat
03-14-2011, 10:59 AM
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Replies: 584
Views: 63,704
Re: What kind of car do you drive??
My cars have changed since I last posted here.
I now have two cars that are quite different from each other, both of which get good gas mileage.
2010 Mini Cooper 6-speed manual
2010 Toyota Prius Two
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Forum: Technical Discussion
01-20-2011, 12:14 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,922
Re: RS550 Enough Power?
We tried using one with a Fisher-Price for our arm rotation in 2007, and destroyed it instantly. In retrospect, we should have known better, given all the power of the F/P and moment of inertia of...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
01-20-2011, 11:20 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,922
Re: RS550 Enough Power?
Be very careful in how you use a 256:1 Banebots. They are very easy to destroy. Even with a 550 motor, you get LOTS OF TORQUE at the output, not to mention what you get with a 775 or Fisher Price...
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Forum: Robot Showcase
01-15-2011, 10:50 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 6,026
Re: 2007 in relation to 2011
It will be interesting to see how things play out over the season. While we will be scoring "tubes" like in '07, I see some major differences.
For one, the drivers will have to be very good at...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
01-09-2011, 08:49 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 5,690
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Forum: Extra Discussion
01-09-2011, 08:24 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 11,076
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Forum: Off-Season Events
07-19-2010, 12:13 PM
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Replies: 50
Views: 8,590
Re: 2010 IRI Results and Awards
It seemed that way to me too. I know you sat out one of your finals matches, and 1086 sat out a match in one of their semis. ...and yeh, Team 51 played three times in their hard-fought semi.
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Forum: Off-Season Events
07-19-2010, 10:30 AM
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Replies: 50
Views: 8,590
Re: 2010 IRI Results and Awards
With all the ties in the elimination rounds, it was a good thing for teams that had to "hit the road," that there was no awards ceremony after the matches on Saturday.
I've always thought that the...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
07-17-2010, 09:25 PM
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Replies: 60
Views: 12,458
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Forum: Off-Season Events
07-09-2010, 09:05 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 3,369
Re: 2010 IRI Hotels
Most of the extra tax it to pay for the new arena where the Colts play. My sister who lives in Indy, but is not a big Colts fan, was rather annoyed, especially since there is also a "Colts Arena...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
05-04-2010, 08:48 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 11,064
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Forum: Regional Competitions
03-23-2010, 07:55 AM
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Replies: 134
Views: 17,005
Re: 2010 FLORIDA REGIONAL
We were "dead in the water" our last two matches Saturday because of a damaged power wire to the radio. That is the main reason we weren't picked, along with our having problems with "ball off the...
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Forum: Motors
03-04-2010, 11:30 AM
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Replies: 127
Views: 19,951
Re: how many people have had failing jaguars
We've had two Jaguars fail. With both of them, the lights were behaving normally going from solid red to solid green depending on control input, but they had no output to the motors. No smoke was...
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Forum: Championship Event
04-22-2009, 08:29 AM
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Replies: 173
Views: 29,993
Re: Newton 09
This was not one of our better years, competition-wise, and may have been the first time in the team's history that we were not in the elimination rounds. Still, we had a great time in Atlanta. The...
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Forum: Championship Event
04-09-2009, 09:51 AM
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Replies: 173
Views: 29,993
Re: Newton 09
There probably aren't as many "super star" teams in Newton as, say, Galileo, but we have a good strong field. We have a lot of those always-strong "100s" teams from the northeast.
Pink is still...
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