Forum: Programming
04-19-2005, 08:56 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 641
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Forum: Championship Event
04-18-2005, 10:19 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,261
Programmers meeting in Atlanta to discuss sensors
I would like to organize a programmer's meeting for all programmers, new and old, in Atlanta just after the Web Hug on Thursday in the same area as the Web Hug will be.
I would like to host this...
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Forum: General Forum
04-18-2005, 08:05 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 5,921
Re: Jamie From Mythbusters Interview
I have to admit, I was very anti-battlebots before this weekend. After attending a competition, I found that the competition itself can be very useful. The pits reminded me very much of FIRST pits....
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Forum: Championship Event
04-11-2005, 11:36 PM
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Replies: 60
Views: 4,330
Re: Curie Division is Awesome
I'm glad we'll have the oppurtunity to play and work with some of the teams we've had the honor to in the past, both this year and in the past. I'm very glad to see that there are also many our team...
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Forum: Electrical
04-06-2005, 08:52 AM
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,745
Re: How to measure low velocity
I don't know about the amp part... but I do know that you probably want to keep it at 150deg/s. Yea, in a normal turn you may never go over 80deg/s and you'll be fine... but say, for example, a robot...
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Forum: Electrical
04-06-2005, 08:17 AM
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,745
Re: How to measure low velocity
If I remember correctly (someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), even though it's actual resolution is that small... the values you get on the IFI controller will not be that accurate.
The...
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Forum: General Forum
04-02-2005, 06:07 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,928
Re: Nasa Webcasts
I think NASA has the satellites setup to automatically swap at 6pm for the Video Archive thing they show at certain times each day. That show just happened to be the end I guess of whatever was...
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Forum: General Forum
04-02-2005, 02:01 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,928
Re: Nasa Webcasts
Even though I'm not a big fan of Realplayer... why not just upload one feed? It'll double the quality... and I'd rather there just be one type of video to view and get the overall quality...
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Forum: Programming
03-31-2005, 05:40 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,415
Re: Does your RC do this?
I know for a fact that IFI has been adding tons of diagnostics to the controllers. For example, by putting the radio connectors into the competition port as well they can now do more checks on the...
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Forum: General Forum
03-30-2005, 05:02 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,122
Re: logos&sponsors
I know that most teams usually put sponsor logos on the front and/or back of their team shirts. If you have several small sponsors, there's usually enough room on the back of the shirt to throw in a...
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Forum: Thanks and/or Congrats
03-26-2005, 02:29 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 2,866
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Forum: Chit-Chat
03-19-2005, 02:40 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 804
Re: stargate
Stargate Atlantis has been a great series thus far. I'd doubt they can top the First Season's season finale, because that was absolutly incredible... but I definitly think it'll still be a pretty...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
03-13-2005, 11:06 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 3,192
Re: pic: River Ridiculous
Wow, I love it... a wonderful mixture of my favorite things from previous years. I could just imagine how the scoring/rules/game would go... it looks awesome. Only thing I think is that it would be...
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Forum: General Forum
03-13-2005, 06:59 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,509
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Forum: Regional Competitions
03-13-2005, 06:50 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 2,118
Re: florida regional
I have to admit, this year has been the most exciting Florida Regional in my view. Every year the teams are very open and very friendly... and this year just seemed to push that to a new level from...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
03-11-2005, 12:11 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,373
Re: Florida and Pitt 2005 Videos
Everybody watching the webfeeds, watch for team 386's autonomous. They're getting ever-so-close, and I know they're definitly going to be capping that vision tetra this weekend.
Unfortunatly, we...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
03-09-2005, 03:39 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,373
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Forum: General Forum
03-09-2005, 12:30 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,197
Re: Logan closed through Wednesday morning
I don't know bout you Matt... but I'd rather them shut the airport down then trying to land a big brick going at several hundred mph into 2-4" of mushy frozen sloshy stuff. Heh. A car can handle it,...
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Forum: Rumor Mill
03-09-2005, 12:20 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 7,110
Re: 2008 Game Thread
*sigh* I started the 2006 game thread as a pure joke the night before the 2005 game was about to be announced... and then people treated it like a real thread lol. So much for jokes. :-p But yea, I'm...
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Forum: Robot Showcase
03-08-2005, 04:33 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,947
Re: pic: (447) NasaVCU regional
Wow, very good design. I especially like that banner sensor system... using sensors like that to help track position to automatically grab is a great way to save time and be accurate every time....
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Forum: Robot Showcase
03-08-2005, 01:11 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,947
Re: pic: (447) NasaVCU regional
I was wondering all weekend what is inside of the cup on the arm that picks up the tetra... do you have a picture of the latching mechanism? It was very fast and efficient at picking up and dropping...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
03-08-2005, 04:10 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 942
Re: pic: Sartanyac 3000 doing it's thing
The wide bar is inside the tetra... didn't that make it hard to pull back out? With the webfeed quality, I never noticed the mechanism was actually inside the tetra.
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Forum: General Forum
03-07-2005, 10:15 PM
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Replies: 212
Views: 34,495
Re: Additional Reward
Make sure you watch Florida regional webcast this weekend. That award would be a nice addition :)
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Forum: Control System
03-06-2005, 10:27 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 3,340
Re: IFI Secrets?
I wasn't necessarily placing the disclaimer just towards you, but if some person comes along reading this thread and says "OH I SHOULD DO THAT!" and when they blow something up say that I helped them...
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Forum: Control System
03-06-2005, 09:46 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 3,340
Re: IFI Secrets?
If you did research through IFI and read the Robot Controller and Operator Interface manuals you would find that the LED colors are selected in the master controller based on which radio channel you...
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