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Forum: Scouting 12-05-2016, 01:12 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 898
Posted By ngreen
Re: Would you share Scouting Data?

There are a few levels to consider:

1) After-season archived scouting data. I encourage teams to put their code and data after events onto a public repository, like GitHub. Many already do this,...
Forum: General Forum 12-05-2016, 12:37 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 757
Posted By ngreen
Re: Milk Carton Contest Starship Enterprise team 1108

High praise coming from the Milkman!

The students put a lot of effort in, and it was a nice pre-season activity. Maybe something will come of it, to help some funding, but otherwise, it has brought...
Forum: General Forum 10-27-2016, 07:01 PM
Replies: 34
Views: 3,812
Posted By ngreen
Re: NEW DLC Pack 2!

So I have the answer to the ringtone, but I'll not post it. Give it a try yourself.
Forum: General Forum 10-11-2016, 10:24 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 4,626
Posted By ngreen
Re: Worst you've seen to the Defenses?

At GKC we had a funny instance to add to our list of things we gave out with our No Robot Left Behind (NRLB) program. The field crew came into the pit looking for tools and we gave them a hacksaw,...
Forum: General Forum 10-06-2016, 12:14 PM
Replies: 288
Views: 6,601
Posted By ngreen
Re: Registration 2017

I was logged in and at the page with just the KC regional, waited until 11 CST (NIST time), clicked the tab, hit F5, clicked register, click the event page and snapped a photo, and then got the...
Forum: General Forum 10-06-2016, 12:04 PM
Replies: 288
Views: 6,601
Posted By ngreen
Re: Registration 2017

Registered 1108 for GKC regional and took a photo for confirmation, but dashboard was down when I tried to go back. It showed 7 teams registered (43 remaining) for the regional.
Forum: Scouting 09-24-2016, 12:18 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 2,938
Posted By ngreen
Re: R Package for Downloading FIRST API Data

I installed the package. Right now, I'm a little too busy but I'll try it later.

edit:I've used R some but am no expert. Last year I used clustering in R via Tableau to separate the wheat and...
Forum: Rumor Mill 04-30-2016, 09:20 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 11,048
Posted By ngreen
Re: Water Game 2017

Minisub-bots. 
Forum: General Forum 04-25-2016, 01:58 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,663
Posted By ngreen
Re: WE NEED YOUR HELP

Congrats!

http://i.imgur.com/zoYUwzD.png


edit: And a really big thanks to Dow Chemical for donating $25,000 to FIRST teams.
Forum: General Forum 04-24-2016, 12:11 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,663
Posted By ngreen
Re: WE NEED YOUR HELP

edit: My accusations at least against one team I have since seen that they got votes fairly. I've communicated any concerns directly to Dow365. Good luck everybody.
Forum: General Forum 04-23-2016, 11:13 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,663
Posted By ngreen
Re: WE NEED YOUR HELP

I did. I was a little surprised to see the change in votes from yesterday. Just with how the voting had been, at least one or two teams put in a huge number of votes yesterday. Maybe they went...
Forum: General Forum 04-22-2016, 06:50 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,663
Posted By ngreen
Re: WE NEED YOUR HELP

To update, I've voted for 461, 1108, and 5618 (those posted in this thread). So I'll keep that up.

Close 4th vs 5th place. Who wants my vote, MechTech Dragons or Lambots? EDIT: Lambots got me...
Forum: General Forum 04-22-2016, 12:34 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,663
Posted By ngreen
Re: WE NEED YOUR HELP

I voted for you. But also my own team. bit.ly/22FX6hm

I guess it is one vote per team per day. Which is strange because originally I thought of forming voting pacts, but then thought but that...
Forum: Fundraising 04-18-2016, 08:26 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,236
Posted By ngreen
Re: FIRST & Dow Chemical "Shape the Future" video contest (vote daily this week)

At the end of the day you learned something, and that beats Nyan cats any day. You may have to work harder (and smarter) to make that second regional but you'll be ahead and better than any of the...
Forum: Fundraising 04-18-2016, 02:09 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,236
Posted By ngreen
FIRST & Dow Chemical "Shape the Future" video contest (vote daily this week)

The voting began today (and runs 7 days) -- voting once each day -- for a video contest put on by Dow for FIRST teams. Around 70 teams from all levels (FRC, FLL, FTC) made 60 second videos describing...
Forum: Scouting 04-13-2016, 07:28 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 2,399
Posted By ngreen
Re: Make Scouting Fun?

We had to take a different approach at our second regional because of small team burnout at the first. The principles were different, following a KISS approach and also recognizing some data was...
Forum: Technical Discussion 04-11-2016, 11:42 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 2,515
Posted By ngreen
Re: Aiming lamps

I think these were the flashlights (http://www.amazon.com/Adjustable-Flashlight-Batteries-Included-Flashlights/dp/B005FEGYCO/ref=sr_1_2?s=hardware&ie=UTF8&qid=1460432359&sr=1-2). We had some not...
Forum: General Forum 04-08-2016, 11:00 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 3,289
Posted By ngreen
Re: Best Ways to Scout

I have two answers with the first reflecting the goals of FIRST, that is to really test your abilities and to learn new things. I encourage those building apps, networking, automating processes,...
Forum: Electrical 04-08-2016, 02:36 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 3,681
Posted By ngreen
Re: Battery connected backwards to robot

Our PDP was re-wired in reverse, and we experienced the same clicking sound. Probably 3 seconds before getting to the breaker.

It was an oversight while trying to re-route wires inside a very...
Forum: General Forum 03-28-2016, 07:28 PM
Replies: 43
Views: 6,577
Posted By ngreen
Re: 2016 match data

Thanks for providing these. I had quickly developed some capabilities for scouting using the Ranking data between our first and second (last) regional.

I started directly connecting Ranking data to...
Forum: Regional Competitions 03-24-2016, 05:42 AM
Replies: 58
Views: 6,036
Posted By ngreen
Re: Colorado Regional 2016

Someone should reach out to 5763 (Lightning Robotics) to see if they can help get them to competition. They are from Broomfield. They wrote that because of the snow day that they won't be able to...
Forum: General Forum 04-25-2008, 11:54 AM
Replies: 76
Views: 15,114
Posted By ngreen
Re: Where was the GP at Championships?

Agreed.

For starters, the operator buttons for FRC, FTC, and FLL should be different colors. After working the door between FTC & FLL to the dome all Thursday I know this problem well. The media...
Forum: Pneumatics 04-18-2008, 08:21 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 5,252
Posted By ngreen
Re: How do you control the length a piston will extention/retraction?

Just to reiterate, coarse control of piston length has been around for a while. Here is a post about the setup on 1108's 2003 robot with picture and diagram....
Forum: Chairman's Award 04-15-2008, 11:11 PM
Replies: 65
Views: 10,179
Posted By ngreen
Re: 2008 National Chairman's Award: Who will be THE ONE?

If you look at archimedes you will notice that they have 236, a six time RCA winner in the division, congrats. There are 0 five time winners and 5 four time winners.

So basically everything is...
Forum: Championship Event 04-14-2008, 11:20 PM
Replies: 35
Views: 5,428
Posted By ngreen
Re: what to bring to Atlanta???

I agree with the jacket and deodorant parts. It was cool and misty today and lately the weather been known to take little nosedives. Also we all need to be photogenic (and smellegenic) in case CNN...
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