Forum: General Forum
Today, 12:42 PM
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Re: Best Time Savings
Know when its time to have a meeting and when to end one.
Its very easy to waste over a week if parts of the team aren't unified or working towards ambiguous goals. Sometimes spending four hours...
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Forum: General Forum
12-28-2016, 01:40 PM
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Replies: 14
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Re: Best Coach Bus Company?
If you are set on going the bus route see if there is someone in your district who has been involved in renting buses for other school events. Using an existing channel for transportation takes some...
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Forum: General Forum
12-28-2016, 01:08 PM
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Replies: 13
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Re: Storage/Tote Cart
To echo what Nathan said about the totes being heavy when loaded up, consider buying some tote bins in a smaller size. You can find some that are almost half the height of the standard kit tote...
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Forum: General Forum
12-26-2016, 06:20 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,518
Re: Storage/Tote Cart
How wide is this cart overall? When making a storage cart for daily use making sure it can fit through a standard doorway is wise. If you ever want to take it to a venue smaller than a large...
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Forum: General Forum
12-12-2016, 10:39 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 2,160
Re: Building a second robot - electronics?
As long as I can remember the second robots we've had on my current and previous teams have used DLink/competition routers. We always take it with us to events so we have a spare just in case.
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Forum: General Forum
12-11-2016, 08:46 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,273
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Forum: General Forum
12-11-2016, 05:34 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 2,160
Re: Building a second robot - electronics?
1058 built our two robots on a budget this year. The electronics are the toughest part to get around. Many of the design decisions we made in certain sub-systems were to keep our costs down and...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
12-11-2016, 01:17 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,270
Re: Jigging Tubing Before Weld
1058 used an extensive amount of Versa Frame from Vexpro this year and a group of students welded our frame this year in house. We purchased a few packs of gussets from Vexpro that we could use to...
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Forum: General Forum
11-17-2016, 09:09 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 2,674
Re: 3D Printed Parts on an FRC Robot?
Spacers are a good part to use a printer for. Its nice for some of the more arbitrary sizes you need based on CAD files to just hit print and have a ton made consistently.
This year we printed a...
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Forum: General Forum
11-17-2016, 05:23 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 2,346
Re: Average score per match and cycle times
Always prioritize tasks and stick to them. You can re-prioritize as you go along depending on how your strategies changes or any major updates that would shift your team, but you should always have...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
11-16-2016, 10:09 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 1,696
Re: Polycord Pulleys
We made custom pulleys using some acetal we found at a local plastics company. With several lathes and willing students it took some time but the learning experience was valuable. Not the most...
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Forum: General Forum
11-15-2016, 01:44 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 2,346
Re: Average score per match and cycle times
One of the metrics we used this year was asking what game will we see on Einstein and when has that style of play generally been introduced to the events.
2014 it was consistent three assist...
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Forum: General Forum
11-08-2016, 04:12 PM
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Replies: 56
Views: 5,548
Re: Crown Jewel of your Collection
I've got shirts & robot parts from a few robots of ours and a few other teams.
The coolest FIRST item I have is an original copy of the 1996 Championship Elimination bracket...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
11-03-2016, 12:22 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,561
Re: Battle Of the Bay, Off-season Event
1058 & 1056/8501 are excited for our first BOTB! Looks like a great list of teams, some we haven't played with yet and many we have. Glad we get to send off Stronghold with all of you!
If a...
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Forum: General Forum
11-02-2016, 12:50 PM
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Replies: 54
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Re: What hath we wrought? 2016 Horror Stories
1058's tougher times this year:
Reading Match 1
Our climber is a double linkage designed so the gas shocks keep it down before a piston pushes them past the center point so they take over and...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
10-31-2016, 12:27 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 2,782
Re: RiverRage #20 - October 29th 2016
Thanks to all the volunteers who took the time to run another River Rage and especially to everyone past and present who have kept the event running for 20 years! Events like these have a large...
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Forum: Pneumatics
10-30-2016, 08:24 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 2,713
Re: pneumatic catapults
Ours was made an added this year during our third district event so we drilled a 1/4" hole, threw a long bolt through the lexan frame of the catapult, and used some round 1/2" OD 1/4" ID tubing from...
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Forum: General Forum
10-29-2016, 08:33 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,115
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Forum: General Forum
10-27-2016, 03:50 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,023
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Forum: Technical Discussion
10-27-2016, 03:01 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,894
Re: WCD 6" pneumatic tire wear
Looks similar to ours. We are currently sitting at 129 competition matches, plus practice, & demos.
We opted for the dead axle wheels using the AM 6" hub and because we were breaking so many at...
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Forum: General Forum
10-25-2016, 11:06 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 4,598
Re: The Best Team(s) in need of an event win/
I think 461 is leading the pack in this thread (https://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=152026).
This thread is a spinoff to discuss teams who are overdue since their last win...
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Forum: General Forum
10-25-2016, 10:56 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 4,598
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Forum: General Forum
10-21-2016, 11:14 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,812
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Forum: Regional Competitions
10-21-2016, 11:00 PM
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Replies: 44
Views: 6,092
Re: Most Competitive Events 2017
I find the most competitive events aren't ones with the top tier of FRC in attendance.
For me you take a few perennial solid teams, mix in some teams playing to their strengths, and add in some...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
10-21-2016, 07:20 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 3,963
Re: pic: High Traction Drivetrain Concept
Care to share what has lead your team to choose this over a normal 8wd with all traction wheels or shrink it down to 6wd?
Do you keep all the wheels on the same plane or do you drop the center...
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