Forum: Regional Competitions
10-10-2016, 16:06
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Views: 71,754
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Forum: General Forum
29-08-2016, 12:24
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Replies: 122
Views: 11,317
Re: Pockets on Women's Pants
The war on women's pockets has driven me crazy my whole life. I'll admit I have a minority view on fashion, but I wish our society would prioritize comfort and function over whatever is "in" this...
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Forum: Electrical
14-05-2016, 14:22
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Replies: 31
Views: 3,469
Re: Tips for new 'Head of Electronics'
Tug test all your crimps. Make sure the red and yellow fuses in the PDB are fully seated. Make sure the electronics are covered when someone is filing or cutting metal in the robot -- swarf is the...
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Forum: General Forum
11-05-2016, 10:27
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,157
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Forum: General Forum
05-05-2016, 09:03
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,510
Re: Poll: Inspire Blog
The URL for the new FIRST website isn't country specific. This is good.
The website is pretty. Also good, but not really a priority for me.
I have a hard time finding the things I'm looking for...
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Forum: Chairman's Award
18-04-2016, 15:04
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Replies: 6
Views: 924
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Forum: General Forum
15-04-2016, 10:58
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Replies: 46
Views: 9,463
Re: Fire at Michigan State Champs
My assumption is that the early poking around near the fire was an attempt to find and hit the main breaker, which is usually the first line of defense before they go to the extinguishers. Even when...
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Forum: General Forum
04-04-2016, 12:13
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,047
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Forum: Regional Competitions
03-04-2016, 08:33
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Replies: 19
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Re: 2016 Queen City Regional (QCR)
On behalf of team 1939, I would like to thank all the volunteers who helped make this a great regional.
Congratulations to team 3504 Girls of Steel on your Engineering Inspiration award, to the...
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Forum: General Forum
29-03-2016, 14:02
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Replies: 44
Views: 2,604
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Forum: General Forum
27-03-2016, 18:50
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Replies: 57
Views: 6,598
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Forum: Electrical
27-03-2016, 17:20
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Replies: 121
Views: 11,831
Re: COMM lost way to many times
Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (http://www.isixsigma.com/dictionary/dfmea/). It's a Six-Sigma process that has you go through the system listing all the things that could go wrong, how bad...
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Forum: Awards
25-03-2016, 16:06
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Replies: 21
Views: 1,770
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Forum: Awards
25-03-2016, 13:30
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Replies: 21
Views: 1,770
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Forum: Technical Discussion
23-03-2016, 11:16
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Replies: 49
Views: 4,821
Re: Workshop/Tools/Parts
I'm going to offer up this (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=115165)thread with discussion of recommended tools.
I'm going to agree that a second RoboRio and associated...
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Forum: NI LabVIEW
22-03-2016, 13:41
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Replies: 1
Views: 361
Re: Autonomous Help
In your second frame of your sequence, you don't actually tell the wedge arm motor to stop. You need to set output to 0 for that device for it to stop, otherwise it just keeps doing the last thing...
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Forum: General Forum
17-03-2016, 15:55
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Replies: 39
Views: 3,638
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Forum: General Forum
16-03-2016, 16:27
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Replies: 177
Views: 42,507
Re: The Triple Tortuga is Contest born.
I've been looking for video of this, but I can't find it, so I'll provide the play by play, as I recall it.
The near robot was disabled by the refs for having a bumper fall off traversing the rock...
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Forum: General Forum
15-03-2016, 11:46
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Replies: 170
Views: 139,865
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Forum: Electrical
09-03-2016, 15:22
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,198
Re: Longer battery wires
You're only allowed 12 inches on the battery half of the Anderson connector <R5>. You could, theoretically, use a longer cable on the other side and still comply with <R36>, but I would urge you not...
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Forum: Chairman's Award
07-03-2016, 16:53
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Replies: 58
Views: 13,373
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Forum: Regional Competitions
07-03-2016, 11:01
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Replies: 20
Views: 3,856
Re: Week 1 statistics
I've found that the TBA data has a tendency to not record defense type for position 3 in the first match. They have a few other data glitches, but that's the most common one.
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Forum: General Forum
06-03-2016, 01:15
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,211
Re: Driver observations from week 1
You missed out on Overdrive in 2008. There was an optical illusion effect from the center divider wall that would make it look like you could see the other half of the field, but some things in the...
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Forum: General Forum
06-03-2016, 00:11
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,198
Re: Average of Defense Crossings- Week 0.5-1
The rough terrain wasn't on the field much, but when it was there, alliances appear to have crossed it largely at will (94% of crossing opportunities, damaged 91% of opportunities), although...
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Forum: General Forum
05-03-2016, 23:16
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,198
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