Forum: General Forum
Yesterday, 19:10
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Views: 1,999
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Forum: Chit-Chat
Yesterday, 03:24
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Replies: 0
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Petition to Get MN to join STEMx
My team (Industrial Revolution) recently made a petition (https://www.change.org/p/doug-paulson-get-minnesota-to-join-stemx-to-support-state-stem-education) on change.org because we think it would be...
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Forum: Games/Trivia
Yesterday, 02:36
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Replies: 11
Views: 168
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Forum: Fundraising
08-10-2016, 18:50
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,873
Large Corporate Sponsorships?
Our team wants to attend 2 regionals this year, so we need to raise some more money than in previous years. We saw that some large corporations like Boeing, Google, and Boston Scientific sponsor some...
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Forum: Team Organization
17-03-2016, 18:23
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,615
Re: Becoming Competitive
Yeah! We found a new teacher at our town's elementary school with prior experience as a FIRST mentor to help us out next year. We also have a parent that is an engineer that wants to help out, a...
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Forum: Team Organization
17-03-2016, 03:01
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,615
Becoming Competitive
I am a sophomore on a very small team from a small town in northern Minnesota. Our team was founded in 2008, however throughout our years as a team we have never been able to get much funding in...
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Forum: General Forum
17-03-2016, 02:20
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Replies: 373
Views: 84,840
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Forum: General Forum
05-03-2016, 22:17
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Replies: 91
Views: 13,335
Re: 2016 Duluth Regional Discussion
Team 2499 had a lot of issues this year with our robot, but it was still a lot of fun. Quals match 64 was especially rough for us because our entire alliance lost communication with their robots so...
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Forum: General Forum
01-03-2016, 23:21
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Replies: 1
Views: 871
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Forum: General Forum
27-02-2016, 13:20
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,178
Re: Floppy Drawbridges
My team has the exact same question. So far all of the drawbridges we've practiced with were made of plywood but the ones used at comp look much more bendy based on the live stream.
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Forum: General Forum
26-02-2016, 18:24
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Replies: 177
Views: 42,505
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Forum: General Forum
25-02-2016, 22:43
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Replies: 91
Views: 13,335
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Forum: General Forum
24-02-2016, 16:54
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Replies: 66
Views: 11,730
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Forum: General Forum
23-02-2016, 18:56
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Replies: 29
Views: 2,846
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Forum: Electrical
23-02-2016, 18:49
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Replies: 54
Views: 3,661
Re: HELP: Voltage Drop
It could be an issue with the VRM which we posted about in this (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=144555) thread. Someone might have already said that in this thread, sorry...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
23-02-2016, 17:43
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Replies: 0
Views: 358
Communication fix
PSA to any teams having communication issues:
Our robot was having an issue where it would disconnect after barely driving because of a huge drop in voltage, which didn't leave enough for the radio....
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Forum: Programming
23-02-2016, 13:05
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Replies: 5
Views: 677
Adding more motors for tank drive
This is the first time our team is using python and we've been trying to figure out how to change our original code that had a cim on each side to having two cims on each side. It's probably not that...
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Forum: Electrical
22-02-2016, 16:20
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,131
Re: New radio
Our radio had been cutting out when we drive because the voltage has been dropping from 12 volts to 8 volts which apparently is not enough for the radio to stay connected. We use a lot of voltage...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
12-01-2016, 09:38
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,918
Re: Tank tread bumpers?
Thanks!! We will talk about it at our meeting today and see if we could make something like this work. I really like this concept for one but I am not a primary builder so I will show this to them...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
11-01-2016, 22:36
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,918
Tank tread bumpers?
My team and I were thinking about doing tank treads this year so we could get over some of the defenses. We wanted to do something like this...
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Forum: General Forum
11-01-2016, 03:49
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Replies: 30
Views: 3,477
Re: Sharing information - not a good idea?
Even if they can use it somewhat against you during qualifications, it's going to be important during alliance selections. Our team is planning on making info on what our robot can do readily...
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Forum: Rules/Strategy
11-01-2016, 01:46
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,175
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Forum: General Forum
11-01-2016, 00:08
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,136
Re: Outer works and such.
The rules state that an "undamaged" defense is worth 5 points when you cross it, so does that mean you can only get 5 points per defense since if you crossed it a second time it would be weakened,...
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Forum: Rules/Strategy
10-01-2016, 20:31
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,495
Re: 1836's Stronghold Game Test!
I don't know about an answer key but if you click the back button while you are taking it will show you what the correct answer was for the previous question and if you got it right.
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Forum: Rules/Strategy
09-01-2016, 13:58
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,029
Robot clearance?
I saw a thread on robot clearance on the bottom from last year and people said there were no rules on it but someone on my team thinks we should check again since we want to put big wheels on our...
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