Forum: Career
02-05-2016, 16:46
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Replies: 9
Views: 863
Re: Question for FIRST Alumni
Get off ChiefDelphi, and pick up the phone, send some emails, talk to proffessors, or go into these companies.
Or just give up...and work for your dad.
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Forum: General Forum
17-02-2016, 18:53
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,293
Summer Internship
To the Point:
I'm looking for a Summer internship, and am looking now on chiefdelphi to see if anyone knows of one at their company or in their community
A Bit About Me:
Currently I am a Sophomore...
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Forum: General Forum
04-06-2015, 01:13
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Replies: 15
Views: 4,076
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Forum: General Forum
24-05-2015, 02:08
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Replies: 37
Views: 7,270
Re: I'm Team Captain!
As a past captain:
I was constantly thanked and led our team to the best season yet, from being dead last to alliance captains the next year.
Being a captain for me was about being someone everyone...
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Forum: General Forum
27-04-2015, 14:22
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Replies: 143
Views: 29,460
Re: 900's Championship Cheesecaking Chronicles
My opinion: I support "cheesecaking" (still not the biggest fan of the term). BUT there is a difference between improving or adding a feature to a robot, versus builing a whole new robot.
At...
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Forum: General Forum
10-04-2015, 04:31
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Replies: 21
Views: 5,739
Re: Future Championship Poll
Of course this could change or be clarified in the future, but the way im seeing this now is: (say the champs are in detroit and houston) If my rookie team from Michigan is just lucky enough to...
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Forum: Rules/Strategy
05-04-2015, 10:07
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Replies: 32
Views: 6,625
Re: More Finesse as a Driver
Last year as driver I drove with two joysticks in a tank drive configuration (hands near the base of the controller) AND then i added a 3D printed pedal that i wired that when pushed the speed would...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
19-01-2015, 00:39
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Replies: 24
Views: 8,606
Re: Tape Measure Container Grabber
The team you are refering to is 2064. Their technical mentor was a technology teacher at my High School so i got to hear and see quite alot of that design
Im pretty sure that the 2 hooks they used...
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Forum: Career
12-01-2015, 00:27
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Replies: 0
Views: 860
Do you need a intern?
To the Point:
I'm looking for a Summer internship, and am looking now on chiefdelphi to see if anyone knows of one at their company
A bit about me:
Currently I a Freshmen studying Mechanical...
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Forum: Rumor Mill
23-12-2014, 01:07
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Replies: 712
Views: 167,194
Re: 2015 HINT DISCUSSION
I would be money that this hint had very little** to do with the actual game itself. I think the hint has to do with the format of how we play. The 3 vs 3 will remain, but elimination format might be...
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Forum: General Forum
20-12-2014, 19:09
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Replies: 45
Views: 7,701
Re: Would you like End Game back?
From a drivers standpoint (one who has driven 2011-2014), No end game was interesting. The endgame, meant a clear finish to the match. Without a endgame, there was no clear end, except for when the...
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Forum: Robot Showcase
15-12-2014, 15:56
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Replies: 4
Views: 2,130
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Forum: Technical Discussion
18-11-2014, 21:57
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Replies: 14
Views: 3,621
Re: Redesigning the Driver Station
As a small project for myself last year, I took apart the old drivers station, which was large, bulky and ugly.
I planed the whole piece of wood, to bring life back to it, get rid of the uneven...
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Forum: General Forum
15-10-2014, 23:06
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Replies: 33
Views: 8,261
Re: [beyondinspection] Website Release
I for one loved reading the articles on this site. My favorite part was the 3 articles pertaining to specific teams and their robots (A little biased here since they were all NE teams that we...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
30-09-2014, 01:17
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Replies: 36
Views: 8,626
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Forum: General Forum
27-09-2014, 14:12
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Replies: 36
Views: 8,035
Re: Unexpected Plays That Make the Crowd Go Wild!
This actually happened twice: We would truss the ball, and another robot on our alliance would catch the ball as they drove by completely unprepared to catch.
1st - was at the NE Groton District,...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
01-08-2014, 00:55
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,891
Re: Framing with Esto Connectors
I have mentioned them often on CD. We have built 2 competition robots (2012 & 2014) and a few demo bots with these. The frames took quite a beating. 2012 - falling off the bridge alot. 2014 - the...
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Forum: General Forum
13-06-2014, 23:58
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Replies: 111
Views: 17,941
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Forum: General Forum
13-06-2014, 22:21
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Replies: 50
Views: 7,642
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Forum: General Forum
13-06-2014, 15:43
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Replies: 50
Views: 7,642
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Forum: Off-Season Events
11-06-2014, 21:59
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Replies: 46
Views: 10,176
Re: 2014 IRI Rule Changes
I understand that it helps the Refs out ALOT! but whats stopping you from a 3 robot line? 3 robots could push any defenders and they can probably cycle fast enough to skip the truss.
Dont like that...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
11-06-2014, 15:37
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Replies: 45
Views: 6,358
Re: Why is swerve so slow?
The only team to do swerve in NE was 2067. They were one of the fastest on the field (didnt see too much pushing robots out of the way from them due to speed. Instead they would go around.)
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Forum: General Forum
09-06-2014, 22:17
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Replies: 68
Views: 19,886
Re: Has there ever been a fight at compeition?
I guess you could say that this is one argument against FIRST being a sport. We dont have has many fights compared to other traditional sports. So glad we dont. We dont need a penalty box as part of...
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Forum: General Forum
08-06-2014, 08:40
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Replies: 33
Views: 8,109
Re: Frank Answers Fridays - Expanded Championship
Every time I read more into the Expanded Championship, I feel so sorry for the people that are organizing this event. Its going to be alot of work!!! I would like to thank those that are helping to...
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Forum: General Forum
04-06-2014, 23:05
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,728
Re: $500 for a new showbot?
We built a showbot for UTC, for over 5000+.
Biggest suggestion: When working on a tight budget, given to you by others, FIRST list out all prices! It really helps when budgeting. Also with only 500,...
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