Forum: General Forum
06-12-2016, 20:30
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Replies: 42
Views: 6,015
Re: Biggest upsets of 2016
Thanks for the shoutout! Also, we were part of the Curie upsets, but our win was not a significant upset itself.
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Forum: General Forum
12-06-2016, 13:59
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Replies: 27
Views: 2,299
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Forum: General Forum
03-06-2016, 15:36
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Replies: 26
Views: 2,174
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Forum: Technical Discussion
01-06-2016, 21:37
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Replies: 93
Views: 7,683
Re: Most underrated/undervalued tools
Vice grips. They can hold together parts while machining, clamp to a small part so you don't have to be close to the machine, stop vibrations on some parts while milling, hold some sketchy prototype...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
31-05-2016, 20:23
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Replies: 108
Views: 28,166
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Forum: General Forum
31-05-2016, 19:55
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Replies: 28
Views: 3,503
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Forum: General Forum
30-05-2016, 19:13
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Replies: 28
Views: 3,503
Re: Take our robot survey, win stuff!
Great survey! I like to give my feedback on events. Also, it sure would be nice to have a mechanical keyboard to replace my old entry dell keyboard for my rig.
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Forum: General Forum
24-05-2016, 20:21
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,097
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Forum: General Forum
22-05-2016, 19:43
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,259
Re: How is your team structured?
We have officer positions, which are President, who handles outreach and build season happenings, and is the "face of the team". The build team manager (or vice president) is the main director during...
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Forum: General Forum
22-05-2016, 15:25
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Replies: 55
Views: 5,228
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Forum: CAD
19-05-2016, 08:37
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,777
Re: How does your CAD team work?
We have one person, usually the most skilled in CAD, handle the final assembly of the robot, and making complicated parts. Everyone else makes the CAD for their respective subteam (Drivetrain,...
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Forum: General Forum
18-05-2016, 17:29
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Replies: 51
Views: 8,421
Re: Best low goal robot
Yeah, 836 was incredible, mainly due to the speed at which they went around the field. The effectiveness of a low goal bot is 80% the speed and skill of a driver. A statistic I find incredible is...
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Forum: General Forum
18-05-2016, 12:54
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Replies: 51
Views: 8,421
Re: Best low goal robot
Curie had a whole lot of great low goal shooters. 3546, 5406, 1511, 25, just to name a few.
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Forum: General Forum
18-05-2016, 12:47
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Replies: 37
Views: 3,815
Re: What Percent of Teams Use CAD?
We use Inventor, 90% of our parts are made from a CAD drawing. Also, we use our CAD to direct our CNC mill. CAD is also used mainly on our team to find places where electronics, motors, and...
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Forum: General Forum
17-05-2016, 17:35
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Replies: 53
Views: 8,535
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Forum: General Forum
17-05-2016, 09:40
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Replies: 53
Views: 8,535
Re: what was the best shooting mechanism for 2016?
330 had a good linear punch mechanism (A piston hit the ball), but I feel it had to be a bit to close to the goal. I think that 3360 had a shooter that could shoot from farther away, and the batter,...
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Forum: General Forum
17-05-2016, 07:34
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Replies: 53
Views: 8,535
Re: what was the best shooting mechanism for 2016?
Both wheeled shooters and catapults were equal I feel, but the best wheeled shooter was the turret-style from 254, 179, and 5172. The best catapult was between 148 and 118. (Texans know catapults, I...
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Forum: General Forum
16-05-2016, 12:52
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Replies: 44
Views: 5,595
Best Up-And-Coming Teams
I created this thread to see which teams people think will be powerhouses/already are, and are relatively new. The criteria is that their first competition must be in 2013 or later. Here is my list...
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Forum: Chit-Chat
16-05-2016, 11:14
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Replies: 31
Views: 2,714
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Forum: General Forum
08-05-2016, 20:47
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Replies: 116
Views: 16,100
Re: Your favorite robot of all time?
My favorite robot of all time is 254's 2014 robot. It is not extremely complicated, in fact many teams could have made their robot, but the strategy they used was so unique and so elegant that it is...
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Forum: General Forum
08-05-2016, 12:15
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Replies: 57
Views: 11,801
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Forum: General Forum
07-05-2016, 07:45
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Replies: 33
Views: 2,529
Re: Driving Practice
Also, you can get your driver's arms ripped for working the joysticks/controller as fast as possible. :D
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Forum: General Forum
06-05-2016, 15:42
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Replies: 33
Views: 2,529
Re: Driving Practice
If you have other people, what we did is have these people constantly distract you from driving, block your vision, bump the control table, and yell your name. It is a very stressful environment and...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
06-05-2016, 12:17
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Replies: 152
Views: 19,780
Re: New Off-season Defenses
I have heard a lot of ideas for a rolling log defense, and I really like the concept, but I feel one rolling log would be impossible to get over. I think that a better design for the defense would...
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Forum: General Forum
05-05-2016, 20:39
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Replies: 19
Views: 3,374
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