Forum: Announcements
17-06-2015, 21:55
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Forum: CAD
23-03-2015, 00:37
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,155
Onshape
CAD in the Cloud! (https://www.onshape.com/)
I played with the Beta at work and its pretty awesome.
Totally useless with my slow-poke home internet.
Anyone else tried it out? The collaboration...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
04-03-2015, 03:14
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,464
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Forum: General Forum
11-11-2014, 18:12
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Replies: 28
Views: 5,744
Re: FIRST-like Programs at the College Level
If you want to get a job working on robot electro/mechanical cars at Tesla or Google the World Solar Challenge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Solar_Challenge) and its counterpart The North...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
14-03-2014, 03:15
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Replies: 1
Views: 597
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Forum: Robot Showcase
04-03-2014, 18:11
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Replies: 29
Views: 5,382
Re: Team 2826 2014 Reveal
Too bad you can't compete with both those robots on the same alliance...
Imagines Charybdis1 endlessly cycling HP balls over the truss to Charybdis2 endlessly firing them into the goal... all...
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Forum: General Forum
28-02-2014, 17:10
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Replies: 408
Views: 85,435
Re: Week 1 Analysis
Watched some Alamo matches...
...man this game is slow...
Sometime 148 just spins in place for entertainment while they wait for a ball to get passed to them. When was the last game powerhouse...
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Forum: Robot Showcase
25-02-2014, 13:05
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,646
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Forum: Robot Showcase
19-02-2014, 22:46
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,487
Re: Team 319 Presents: Bob
Excellent!
I really like this design. Very innovative.
...and its been proven on the battlefield unlike some other reveal videos.
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Forum: Robot Showcase
17-02-2014, 23:23
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Replies: 68
Views: 19,965
Re: Best Robot Desktop Photos
This image has been used for the Overdrive Wikipedia page for the past five years. It was not taken by our team....
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Forum: Extra Discussion
13-02-2014, 01:56
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,858
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Forum: General Forum
13-02-2014, 01:54
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Replies: 4
Views: 751
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Forum: Robot Showcase
04-03-2013, 21:33
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Replies: 117
Views: 36,593
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Forum: Robot Showcase
25-02-2013, 16:41
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Replies: 259
Views: 73,500
Re: The Robonauts 118 - 2013 Video
Robonauts are <30", should be really easy to block them for full-court shots.
But someone will have to do it. I'm sure a lot of disorganized alliances will fail to stop them quickly enough.
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Forum: Robot Showcase
24-02-2013, 23:39
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Replies: 259
Views: 73,500
Re: The Robonauts 118 - 2013 Video
Why didn't I think of that?
Just do everything!! duh :D
Well done. As 120 posts have pointed out, this marks something of a pinnacle in FIRST engineering.
This is what they refer to in the hip...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
12-02-2013, 00:59
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,291
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Forum: Robot Showcase
11-02-2013, 15:04
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,847
Re: Team 100 Progress...
Verrrrrry rickety prototype.
We might be testing the real one today.
Short answer: no. You have to look very closely, the robot occupies three zones at many points in the climb, but it never...
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Forum: General Forum
06-02-2013, 03:15
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Replies: 36
Views: 5,704
Re: 50 POINTS
Well, lets just say I think your team is especially clever :]
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Forum: General Forum
06-02-2013, 02:03
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Replies: 36
Views: 5,704
Re: 50 POINTS
My prediction?
Both are important strategies, both in quals and elims.
It's the difference between scoring a lot of points fast vs. scoring a lot of points over a longer time. If you can pick up...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
02-02-2013, 05:53
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Replies: 20
Views: 5,430
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Forum: Technical Discussion
19-01-2013, 03:42
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Replies: 2
Views: 643
Help: Looking for Big Gas Springs
Hi CD,
I'm looking for very long skinny gas springs. I need something no larger than .875" dia with at least a 20" stroke. 80 lb force would be ideal, but anything as low as 50 would probably...
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Forum: General Forum
15-01-2013, 14:38
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Replies: 247
Views: 69,157
Re: Climbing Mechanism Ideas
Now add to that a wheel which extends underneath the robot to prop it against the bar while reaching for the next level and we are considering the same design. We've even prototyped a mechanism which...
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Forum: General Forum
11-01-2013, 16:06
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,593
Re: Navigating the Minefield
Or a set of tilting wheelies, like this (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/38220), to keep the CG low.
The spacing of the wheels is also important. We found that robots with 6" wheels spaced...
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Forum: General Forum
10-01-2013, 02:10
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,593
Navigating the Minefield
Many matches will be lost this year because of upside-down discs getting stuck under robots.
After kickoff our members powered up some of our old bots and tried driving them over the discs. We did...
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Forum: General Forum
06-01-2013, 02:42
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Replies: 41
Views: 8,298
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Instead of giving us some wood and nails and saying "build us a box", they're handing us power tools and saying "now make us something cool" - galewind [more] 
