Forum: FIRST Tech Challenge
12-15-2016, 10:10 PM
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Forum: FIRST Tech Challenge
12-08-2016, 08:38 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 392
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Forum: FIRST Tech Challenge
12-07-2016, 12:21 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 888
Re: [FTC]: NorCal Advancement
As an exercise, I made up a google sheet that compares the existing NorCal advancement criteria with the criteria in my proposal. You can see it using this link...
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Forum: FIRST Tech Challenge
12-07-2016, 10:42 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 582
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Forum: FIRST Tech Challenge
12-06-2016, 07:17 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 888
Re: [FTC]: NorCal Advancement
One other strange thing about the NorCal strategy: you have a better chance of advancing if you're at a tournament without a host, which motivates you to pick tournaments without hosts.
In Virginia,...
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Forum: FIRST Tech Challenge
12-06-2016, 06:38 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 888
Re: [FTC]: NorCal Advancement
Sorry about that. I updated the link in the original post to a shareable one. But here it is again (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M-88gK0lekAatJJFyXnJRkKlaij9Zf0RSrGFo9MIQXk). Let me know if...
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Forum: FIRST Tech Challenge
12-06-2016, 04:56 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 888
Re: [FTC]: NorCal Advancement
IMHO, the Winning Alliance Captain should always, always get a guaranteed spot to advance to the next level at every tournament. Otherwise, robot performance is completely irrelevant!
As an aside,...
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Forum: General Forum
11-01-2016, 10:37 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,823
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Forum: FIRST Tech Challenge
11-01-2016, 08:19 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,344
Re: [FTC]: Closed Loop Scoring illegal!
As a point of fact, many many teams posed the question that they answered. I know mine did and I know several others did too. The GDC was responding to the overwhelming confusion about what was and...
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Forum: FIRST Tech Challenge
09-17-2016, 08:17 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 652
Re: [FTC]: Using Vacuum instead of Pneumatics?
A few years ago, the "How It's Made" system was discussed by a few teams. As a result of these discussions, coffee grounds and things like it were added to the "Illegal Parts" list of materials (as...
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Forum: FIRST Tech Challenge
04-14-2016, 10:10 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 711
Re: [FTC]: Homebrew Power Distribution Module
We have a JV rookie team that did this for prototyping and scrimmaging this year and it worked great. They connected the USB cable direct from the phone to the Legacy module. They used an Anderson...
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Forum: General Forum
02-29-2016, 01:38 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 5,792
Re: Overview and Analysis of FIRST Stats
On a tangentially related note: I came across "Regularized Adjusted Plus/Minus" stats for NBA basketball players today. They are essentially exactly the stats we're using in FIRST! See for example,...
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Forum: General Forum
02-29-2016, 01:10 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 5,792
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Forum: General Forum
02-29-2016, 07:21 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 5,792
Re: Overview and Analysis of FIRST Stats
Well, essentially I agree with you for real tournaments. Both the average of the opponent's scores and DPR will only be a meaningful measure of defensive performance if averaged over MANY matches,...
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Forum: FIRST Tech Challenge
02-07-2016, 12:06 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 748
Re: [FTC]: Version 1.5 of FTC Apps stability?
The only problem I've seen is the new bug in the SDK in initializing gamepad references described at this link:
http://ftcforum.usfirst.org/showthread.php?6402-Null-Gamepad-References
If a team is...
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Forum: General Forum
02-04-2016, 09:14 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 3,814
Re: 50% of our AndyMark orders wrong
For two straight years, we've had delays in shipments of AndyMark field elements right after FTC kickoff. An order placed the Monday after Saturday kickoff took about two weeks to ship. You'd think...
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Forum: FIRST Tech Challenge
01-07-2016, 01:59 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 774
Re: [FTC]: Core Power Distribution Module
There are widely known issues with the MRI electronics that can cause these symptoms.
A few quick things that you can do to try to address them:
1. Make sure your battery is fully charged. ...
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Forum: General Forum
01-03-2016, 11:29 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,755
Re: FRC WILL ROCK YOU
Great work guys, as always!
I want to see the Queen trilogy completed with "Crazy Little Thing Called FIRST" next year. :)
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Forum: General Forum
12-30-2015, 05:21 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 3,359
Re: Cube and Cubify to go away
Would love to know if anyone got that hack working using the PET filament that the Ekocycle printer uses, and where the PET filament was purchased from as there seem to be lots of PET variants (PETG,...
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Forum: General Forum
12-30-2015, 01:21 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 3,359
Cube and Cubify to go away
http://www.3dsystems.com/press-releases/3d-systems-end-life-cube-its-entry-level-consumer-3d-printer
Does anybody know what impact this will have on all of the Ekocycle printers that were given away...
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Forum: FIRST Tech Challenge
12-17-2015, 02:20 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,135
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Forum: FIRST Tech Challenge
12-11-2015, 02:15 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 1,861
Re: [FTC]: Pitsco and shipping times
ServoCity has consistently shipped quickly. I usually receive my stuff in a few days (assuming it's in stock).
Actobotics is solid, with more options than Tetrix and stronger axles and bearings...
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Forum: FIRST Tech Challenge
12-10-2015, 03:36 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,874
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Forum: FIRST Tech Challenge
12-07-2015, 07:45 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 3,857
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Forum: FIRST Tech Challenge
11-19-2015, 09:18 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 848
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