Forum: Regional Competitions
03-29-2011, 10:36 AM
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Replies: 58
Views: 11,153
Re: Field Crew Bragging Rights
Even if we sharpied the latest version numbers on the inside of all the safety glasses given out, we would still get old versons popping up here and there on competition days :P
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Forum: Thanks and/or Congrats
03-28-2011, 04:42 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 4,336
Re: 2011 SBPLI First Regional
Congrats to all teams that attended the SBPLI Long Island regional! I was super impressed by the robots and teams this year. Special congrats to 1629, 229, 375 and 329!! :)
I had a blast...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
03-28-2011, 04:17 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 11,153
Re: Field Crew Bragging Rights
The crew that I worked with at Pittsburgh and SBPLI Long Island were both absolutely fantastic! At both Pittsburgh and Long Island like Mark said, we had the general policy not to start a match until...
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Forum: General Forum
03-16-2011, 10:31 PM
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Replies: 337
Views: 42,698
Re: Team Update #18
I know this has been suggested already, but I think the right place to pose questions is directly to the Q&A:
http://forums.usfirst.org/forumdisplay.php?f=1465
You need to have the team leader...
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Forum: General Forum
03-16-2011, 09:54 PM
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Replies: 337
Views: 42,698
Re: Team Update #18
The simple answer is: at no point. :P
I wasn't referencing your post. It was a different one where the author deleted after reconsidering its GPness. Without that post for context, I think mine...
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Forum: General Forum
03-16-2011, 09:09 PM
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Replies: 337
Views: 42,698
Re: Team Update #18
They look like they are in series, but I believe they act in parallel. Check out attachment. I helped make the tower mods and this is how I remember it working.
If any of the contacts are closed,...
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Forum: General Forum
03-16-2011, 08:55 PM
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Replies: 337
Views: 42,698
Re: Team Update #18
[EDIT] Originally referenced a post later removed by author later, so I wont quote that, but I still think a post about attitude is generally relevant, so I will leave the rest even though it is now...
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Forum: General Forum
03-16-2011, 01:14 PM
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Replies: 337
Views: 42,698
Re: Team Update #18
I do not have a answer for this. So far the only thing I heard of was the speculation of 75ms floating around in this thread. I can see if I can find an answer to this later.
It makes sense to me...
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Forum: General Forum
03-16-2011, 12:49 PM
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Replies: 337
Views: 42,698
Re: Team Update #18
Is there one that says: "Our minibots dimensions make it physically impossible to hit the bolts and we have a really tough to flip switch so that the plate must be pushed up and hit the contacts...
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Forum: General Forum
03-16-2011, 12:37 PM
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Replies: 337
Views: 42,698
Re: Team Update #18
I think this is an unfair categorization. I was standing on the side of the field at the end of almost every match at a week 2 regional and saw every minibot that did not trigger the post. There were...
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Forum: General Forum
03-16-2011, 11:16 AM
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Replies: 337
Views: 42,698
Re: Team Update #18
I honestly don't think this is as big of a problem as it is being made out to be. So far as I could tell at Pittsburgh, the sensors were pretty darn reliable. The only times they did not trigger it...
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Forum: General Forum
03-16-2011, 09:40 AM
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Replies: 337
Views: 42,698
Re: Team Update #18
I guess a description of the new tower triggering mechanism would be useful for some here who did not get to see it at a week 2 regional. There are NO force sensors up there. There are simply 3 metal...
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Forum: General Forum
03-15-2011, 11:40 PM
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Replies: 337
Views: 42,698
Re: Team Update #18
I am not apologizing for FIRST, I am just advocating pragmatism from the teams. The bolt pattern was definitely not obvious and I don't remember seeing it anywhere in the official rules. They are in...
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Forum: IT / Communications
03-15-2011, 11:16 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,264
Re: AJAX links
Hey,
You guys have a nice looking site! Also good job getting the AJAX links working. They all seem to work fine for me in Chrome. While AJAX links might make the content load faster and make for a...
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Forum: General Forum
03-15-2011, 11:05 PM
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Replies: 337
Views: 42,698
Re: Team Update #18
2 observations:
1.) Design the mini-bot so that it can't hit the bolt first. Honestly, I think the bolt pattern was the cause of most of the times it didn't trigger at Pittsburgh. We personally...
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Forum: General Forum
03-15-2011, 09:45 AM
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Replies: 257
Views: 62,220
Re: Another Culture Change
I haven't read through the whole thread yet, but I was a volunteer on the field every day at the Pittsburgh regional and wanted to put in my input.
First, congratulations to 1114, 1503 and 3492. You...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
03-14-2011, 11:13 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 5,542
Re: Field Issues
Hey All,
I was the Control Systems Advisor at the Pittsburgh Regional last week (had an absolute blast there :D). Our volunteer team there carefully monitored every issue that came up with the...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
03-30-2009, 08:47 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 3,855
Re: 2009 Long Island Regional
It was absolutely our pleasure to pick you guys! I can't say thank you enough to teams 329 and 353!!! Your robots were amazing and your teams are so much fun to work with. We would have not gotten...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
03-29-2009, 12:15 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 3,855
Re: 2009 Long Island Regional
Man, what a fun competition! Congrats to all of the teams that attended. You guys made some creative, effective and overall really impressive robots.
Also a huge thank you to all of the field crew,...
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Forum: Thanks and/or Congrats
03-29-2009, 12:02 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 635
HUGE Thank you to teams 329 and 353!
Team 527 would like to thank and congratulate our awesome alliance partners team 329 and 353!!!!
We could not have asked for better partners. You guys were really amazing! We would not have gotten...
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Forum: Website Design/Showcase
02-05-2009, 08:19 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,231
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Forum: Website Design/Showcase
01-29-2008, 05:19 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 996
Re: Firefox addin that helps with webdesign
Hey,
I use firebug:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
It's an extremely comprehensive developer add-on that allows inspecting of html structure, the dom tree, script loadings and...
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Forum: Programming
01-05-2008, 11:22 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 973
Re: starting programing...
If you are looking for a good IDE/compiler that will let you play around on Windows and compile some C examples from tutorials I would go with Dev C++. It's a fairly straight forward IDE and uses a...
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Forum: Programming
01-05-2008, 11:03 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 3,734
Re: Signed and unsigned variables
My first attempt at this post did not address the problem ... so second attempt.
The only thing you need to be careful of is that casting is not a shift as it might seem intuitive to be. An unsigned...
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Forum: College & University Education
04-13-2006, 10:58 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,902
Re: College Decisions
I as well will be attending Georgia Tech in the fall of next year. I'm going into the College of Computing as a CS major and also participating in their new Honors program.
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