Forum: Rules/Strategy
11-04-2016, 16:43
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Forum: Rules/Strategy
07-04-2016, 15:35
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Replies: 13
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Forum: Regional Competitions
09-03-2016, 13:27
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,180
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Forum: Championship Event
20-04-2015, 14:56
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Replies: 24
Views: 5,267
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Forum: General Forum
08-04-2015, 16:38
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,226
Re: USB ports going away during match
The stimulus of the problem WAS the joysticks (I'm not sure if one failed, or if it just got unplugged moving the drivers station around), but the real problem was a programming issue which caused...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
03-07-2014, 18:57
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,289
Re: Repair hole in 2014 24" Ball bladder ??
We had a previously ripped bladder still laying around the shop, so when we got a small puncture in our second ball, I was able to patch it by cutting a patch out of the other bladder and gluing it...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
01-07-2014, 11:26
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Replies: 43
Views: 8,121
Re: pic: New serve mk.1-2517
Not all of the force is transmitted through the bolts (in an ideal world, none of it would be).
Think about the wheels on a car. They are held on with 4-6 studs in single sheer. Some are taking...
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Forum: General Forum
18-06-2014, 13:59
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,517
Re: Pickup System Fix
We used a shaft collar this year to limit the stroke on one of our air cylinders. McMaster has lots of different sizes so you should be able to find one the right size, or take one smaller and drill...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
30-03-2014, 09:05
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Replies: 3
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3 Cim ball shifter output shaft
Yesterday during a practice scrimmage, we lost all drive on one side of our robot. After checking all of the obvious, nothing was found to be out of sorts. After several more minutes of head...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
18-07-2013, 09:28
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Replies: 50
Views: 9,187
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Forum: National Instruments LabVIEW and Data Acquisition
15-07-2013, 14:26
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,063
Re: Setting/changing priorities
With the gyro initialization in the begin VI, the PID would become unstable around 20% of the time. With the gyro initialization disabled, the PID would never become unstable. The only resource...
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Forum: National Instruments LabVIEW and Data Acquisition
12-07-2013, 21:26
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Replies: 5
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Setting/changing priorities
In order for our shooter to quickly reposition itself, we are running some pretty aggressive gains on the PID which is controlling the shooter angle. A side effect of this is that the PID is very...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
09-04-2013, 14:44
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,339
Re: Counting discs
Thanks for the info. I know volunteers were counting the discs during autonomous, but I never saw anyone count them after dumping them out of the goals. That was the reason for my question...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
09-04-2013, 12:26
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,339
Counting discs
What has been everyone's experience with the discs being counted after matches at the regionals?
At the Wisconsin regional, the discs were manually counted after every match. At the Midwest...
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Forum: General Forum
14-01-2013, 23:43
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Replies: 7
Views: 625
Re: Finding belt pulleys?
Last year we got pulleys from B&B Manufacturing http://www.bbman.com/. If you ask, they will give you a FIRST discount (or at least they did last year).
Kenotn
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Forum: Sensors
30-11-2012, 12:27
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Replies: 3
Views: 2,330
Re: Optical encoders and LabView
Thanks for the info. We didn't even realize that we HAD 2 different types of encoders (can't find anything that says 360 on it other than a couple of disks once we get them magnified enough). We...
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Forum: Sensors
19-11-2012, 18:12
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Replies: 3
Views: 2,330
Optical encoders and LabView
Our controls team has been experimenting with adding encoders (standard US Digital E4P-250 series) onto the toughboxes on our robot from last year to get more experience with integrating them. We...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
19-07-2012, 08:53
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,097
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Forum: Technical Discussion
03-05-2012, 00:29
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Replies: 12
Views: 3,639
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Forum: Technical Discussion
30-04-2012, 13:36
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Replies: 12
Views: 3,639
Re: Programming swerve drive in Labview?
Thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately I don't have any first hand experience with LabVIEW, so I'm stuck with what I can distill from others at this time (my plan for the off season is to correct...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
30-04-2012, 12:32
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Replies: 12
Views: 3,639
Programming swerve drive in Labview?
In the off season, our team is working on developing a swerve drive.
I have heard arguments (each way) concerning the fitness of Labview as a programming language for our robots (and don't want to...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
17-04-2012, 10:20
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,700
Re: pic: The Fling-A-Pult
Thanks for sharing the pic.
At QC, I noticed that as your shooter went through it's cycle, there was a dramatic difference in speed between the 1st and 2nd half of the rotation. Is the...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
09-04-2012, 12:20
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Replies: 138
Views: 28,297
Re: 2012 Queen City FRC Regional
I agree on this point. I felt kind of isolated and in the dark on what was going on in the other section. I'm probably just spoiled with MidWest with the jumbo-tron screen at the end of the pits so...
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Forum: General Forum
09-03-2012, 08:44
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Replies: 111
Views: 19,533
Re: Wiimote Digital Scouting System
I believe it was trying to install SP2 which was failing (from what I remember in the log file).
I downloaded the 2008 R2 version of the SQL software and installed it last night for Alan. Then the...
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Forum: Programming
11-01-2012, 16:26
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Replies: 26
Views: 9,328
Re: KINECT WORKING IN LABVIEW!!!
Only reference I can find to laser is in [R8] example D which says that "Exposed lasers other than Class I" are examples of hazardous or unsafe materials (and the statement that any laser pointers...
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