Forum: Technical Discussion
15-12-2005, 02:05
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Replies: 7
Views: 792
Snow Machine Tracks
Background: Ok, my team (from Alaska) is trying to design a robot for a non FIRST activity. It will need to cover outdoor terrain, travel quite a long way (half mile at least), and travel in all...
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Forum: Control System
30-11-2005, 21:48
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Replies: 25
Views: 2,418
Re: Competition Super Dongle
Lol a "rogue team". I would think a more practical approach would be for IFI to just go ahead and give it to us (of course under the conditions that if you break anything you are responsible) and...
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Forum: Programming
30-11-2005, 01:26
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Replies: 45
Views: 10,412
Re: Restrictive Environment From School
Call me simplistic but if I were the school district I would the most logical approach to the situation would be to charge a fee to "reset" a laptop. You arent furthering anyones education (face it,...
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Forum: Programming
28-11-2005, 02:00
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Replies: 38
Views: 2,799
Re: CMUCam Next Year?
Lol thats cause no one actually used the camera. I mean not litterally no one, but probably no one enough that it wasnt an issue.
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Forum: Programming
25-11-2005, 21:30
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Replies: 38
Views: 2,799
Re: CMUCam Next Year?
Coding the CMU cam isnt actually all that tough. Its coding the CMU cam on a FIRST Robot Controller, and having it deal with all the chaos (and lighting condiditions) on a FIRST field thats tough. If...
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Forum: General Forum
25-11-2005, 21:13
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,624
Re: FIRST Over For WRONG 1430
Didnt know that. I think thats a private schools team. Then they still qualify for NASA money too. I need to see if they plan to do open competition also.
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Forum: General Forum
23-11-2005, 23:46
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,624
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Forum: General Forum
22-11-2005, 23:45
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,624
FIRST Over For WRONG 1430
Well I am sad/happy to announce that team 1430 (along with all the other Alaskan robotics teams that I know of) will no longer be participating in FIRST. Obviously I will miss going to the PNW...
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Forum: General Forum
26-10-2005, 23:29
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,432
Re: Robotics and Rocketry?
Up here in Alaska there was some kid a few years ago who thought it would be cool to build a guided missile. His dad thought so too (now your expecting me to say that Donald Rumsfeld showed up at his...
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Forum: General Forum
16-06-2005, 01:24
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Replies: 53
Views: 4,421
Re: What does your team call its "leader"?
The last one was the "Fearless Leader" or FL..... :rolleyes:
He just graduated and I'm replacing him. Gotta decide what to go with now. I actually kinda like Commodore. Maybe Commander, or Admiral...
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Forum: Programming
06-04-2005, 02:12
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Replies: 48
Views: 4,610
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Forum: Rules/Strategy
31-03-2005, 21:23
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Replies: 36
Views: 2,889
Re: Winning Defensive Allaince?
Keep in mind that in order to score most robots require several moments of precise meneuvering. Defense does not require this precision. In Portland we were chosen for our aliance because of our...
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Forum: General Forum
30-03-2005, 21:39
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,980
Re: Elevator robots why didn't you..
Keep in mind that only a few teams have been able to cap with vision at all. Not to mention reliably. A program that can work even a third of the time would be way ahead of most teams.
And on the...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
27-03-2005, 23:29
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Replies: 2
Views: 950
Re: pic: Robot congestion
Wow what a mess. The field gets pretty crowded with six robots on it, especially when the two alliances begin interacting. I noticed that matches seemed to generally not involve much interaction...
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Forum: General Forum
22-03-2005, 03:55
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,211
Re: Noticed any patterns?
I am going to apply Russell Logic to this situation and see what happens.
2003=four sides
2004=one side
2005=three sides
The logical conclusion is that next year we will have to play with objects...
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Forum: General Forum
18-03-2005, 22:29
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Replies: 212
Views: 34,497
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Forum: Thanks and/or Congrats
15-03-2005, 00:11
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Replies: 2
Views: 475
Re: PNW Regioanl thanks, congrats and pictures
And I would like to thank you and all the rest of the volunteers there for volunteering. You guys did a great job making some tough scoring decisions, and managing to work through all the technical...
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Forum: Programming
14-03-2005, 22:33
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,163
Re: Setting Autonomous Settings from OI
It seems like I saw a post about this earlier... You need to make sure that some setting on your OI is set correctly. Like you need to have it in user mode or something. Then just have it read all...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
14-03-2005, 22:11
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Replies: 68
Views: 10,790
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Forum: Regional Competitions
14-03-2005, 21:53
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,051
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Forum: Programming
14-03-2005, 21:48
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Replies: 60
Views: 12,639
Re: Optical Mouse Navigation
Oh I get it now. Would a regular mouse work at around 3 feet per second? It doesnt seem like much, but now that I think about it I am sure I dont usually move my mouse that fast..
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Forum: Control System
14-03-2005, 21:31
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Replies: 52
Views: 5,297
Re: Let's have Linux Robots Next Year!
We have been looking at building linux robots, but we would likely just quit FIRST and start our own open (basically no rules) competition here in Alaska. The competition would be almost entirely...
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Forum: Programming
14-03-2005, 19:33
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Replies: 60
Views: 12,639
Re: Optical Mouse Navigation
Well with my season over I am now working on some non FIRST related robotics projects. The first (and more relevant to this discussion) of these is trying to build a robot that can navigate our...
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Forum: Chit-Chat
14-03-2005, 18:32
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,585
Re: What are your post-season plans......
I/We got a few major plans. I am very excited about building a robot based on a PC running Linux. Over the next few weeks I also want to build a segway out of parts we got laying around. A few...
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Forum: Robot Showcase
10-03-2005, 00:16
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Replies: 16
Views: 5,190
Re: pic: 1097 Direct Drive 01
I am drooling. I hate chains. Just today I had to replace chains four times.... That may have had something to do with the fact that I was riding on the robot, and the wheel mounts really shouldnt...
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