Forum: General Forum
17-12-2016, 17:19
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Replies: 36
Views: 2,601
Re: Minimum age for FRC?
I was a driver on the field (legitimately, as in all STIMS'd and such) in 8th grade (2012) without issue. Unless something has changed I'd imagine the lack of a lower limit would still apply.
Hmm....
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Forum: Awards
10-06-2016, 15:20
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Replies: 19
Views: 3,624
Re: Rockwell Innovation in Control
In 2016, we won it for-
Intricate autonomous modes
Trajectory planning
Live setpoint-actual graph for tuning PIDVA loops
Both drivetrain and arm motion profiled
High level of autonomous...
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Forum: Control System
05-06-2016, 10:07
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Replies: 3
Views: 592
Re: Rasberry Pi for a demo robot driver station
Not sure how easy it would be, but your best bet may be to reverse engineer the DS protocol and then write your own program (probably python?) to act as the driver station. People have done it before...
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Forum: General Forum
22-05-2016, 23:42
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Replies: 88
Views: 13,168
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Forum: Off-Season Events
12-05-2016, 18:16
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Replies: 92
Views: 33,455
Re: 2016 IRI Application Listing
Nice spreadsheet! Never seen SPO before, it's interenting. It looked like some teams are missing the Playoff and Qualification portion of their points in SPO though (27, 2590, and 25 at first...
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Forum: Championship Event
06-05-2016, 13:03
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,235
Re: Practice field at champs
I also liked the removal for the coupons. Much simpler and worked just fine.
As always, my one request would simply be to provide more wooden fields for teams to do simple calibration on. It feels...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
01-05-2016, 21:37
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Replies: 149
Views: 21,192
Re: 2016 IRI Rule Change Suggestions
I agree with this one, at least in part. Focusing on the capture, for a team trying to rank very high, losing the one RP due to a single alliance member's mistake can be very defeating. I think teams...
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Forum: General Forum
20-04-2016, 16:16
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Replies: 84
Views: 13,011
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Forum: General Forum
07-04-2016, 23:54
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Replies: 121
Views: 18,660
Re: 20 point auto club
Team 2607 joins the club with a 20 point auto shown at the MAR District Westtown Event (match video (https://youtu.be/YWFD09p3AJQ)).
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Forum: Extra Discussion
18-03-2016, 17:08
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,934
Re: pic: MOE 365 Wobblies
To be perfectly clear, this is what the noisemaker 'section' actually says:
There is nothing more said than that. Just use your best judgement.
As for the actual Moe Wobblies, look great!...
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Forum: General Forum
07-03-2016, 21:33
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Replies: 60
Views: 6,073
Re: MAR Competitions
Honestly such a statement makes me respect a volunteer even more. We already know that doing a job as difficult as Head Referee perfectly is near impossible. I think admitting fault in yourself...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
04-03-2016, 13:13
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Replies: 3
Views: 761
Re: pic: Team 2607 - 2016 Robot
The puncher operates through two carriages that ride on linear bearings. The back one (retract carriage) is driven by a leadscrew across the length of the puncher. The front one (puncher carriage)...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
04-03-2016, 12:40
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Replies: 3
Views: 761
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Forum: General Forum
25-01-2016, 13:49
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Replies: 17
Views: 3,053
Re: Snowmageddon 2016
It isn't during week 5, so no, at least not for us. Relocating our workspace to a mentors garage for three days was... interesting...
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Forum: General Forum
25-01-2016, 00:38
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Replies: 17
Views: 3,053
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Forum: Programming
23-01-2016, 12:22
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,498
Re: Tuning PID
When you combine a PID control solution with a real device, there are many situations that result it stabilizing at a point that is not the setpoint. To elaborate, if you were using only P to attempt...
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Forum: Control System
22-01-2016, 22:02
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Replies: 5
Views: 589
Re: Bandwidth Workaround?
The FMS makes no distinctions between the types of traffic being sent between the the DS and the robot. All data transferred, including basic robot signaling, are included the the 7mbit limit.
Some...
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Forum: Robot Showcase
22-01-2016, 17:37
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Replies: 2
Views: 892
Re: Manning Robotics | Week 2 Timelapse 2016
Nice job guys! Thanks for sharing the video.
You sound like you're poised to not only accomplish many game objectives, but perhaps more importantly, have time to practice doing them well.
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Forum: Motors
21-01-2016, 17:29
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Replies: 27
Views: 3,264
Re: How many CIMs in your drivetrain?
Here you go (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFYpywyWDyM)
That year we ran 4 CIMs + 4 Mini-CIMs in our shifting 8in Mecanum Drivetrain. Looking back, mecanum probably wasn't the best choice that...
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Forum: General Forum
20-01-2016, 10:21
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,267
Re: FIRST Choice round two!
We made out pretty well:
1 Sensor Board
1 ADIS16448 IMU (which the credits-to-dollars ratio was insane on btw, thanks Analog Devices!)
2 Xbox Controllers
2 Green light rings
1 12V Battery
2 USB...
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Forum: Robot Showcase
20-01-2016, 10:16
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,493
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Forum: Robot Showcase
20-01-2016, 09:30
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,493
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Forum: Technical Discussion
17-01-2016, 20:56
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Replies: 3
Views: 783
Re: Frame Perimeter Restrictions?
The bumpers are separate entities from the frame perimeter. Specifically if you're asking whether or not the 120" perimeter limit includes the width of the bumpers, then no it does not.
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Forum: General Forum
17-01-2016, 00:31
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,739
Re: 2016 Webcast Camera Angles
First, thank you so much for planning this stuff out! I can't wait to watch the MAR (FMA?) webcasts this year.
The most essential thing is to get that full field view from as high as you can. With...
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Forum: General Forum
16-01-2016, 23:37
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,544
Re: Are non-marking tires required
We used black 10" Harbor Freight wheels in competition for 2012 and had no issues with carpet marking. I don't remember making any black streaks on the carpet when we first started using them, but...
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