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Forum: General Forum 30-04-2016, 22:31
Replies: 55
Views: 13,976
Posted By Boltman
Re: Congrats to this year's champions: 330 2481 120 1086

Congrats Beach Bots..yea CA does it again! and the awesome kudos to rest of your alliance.

What a super hard path to take through 1678 and 148 and the international dream team finalists... awesome...
Forum: Scouting 18-04-2016, 13:12
Replies: 76
Views: 9,893
Posted By Boltman
Re: Is FRC giving high CG robots a free pass on defense?

Regarding tipping....

Intent has to be there... if a robot starts to tip another bot but backs off then no harm or foul. If instead they tip and "follow through" to actually tip then a foul will be...
Forum: General Forum 17-04-2016, 09:32
Replies: 57
Views: 7,548
Posted By Boltman
Re: Is Stronghold the roughest game yet?

YES..we build durable bots..this year we broke eight times
Forum: General Forum 14-04-2016, 21:29
Replies: 85
Views: 10,132
Posted By Boltman
Re: Alliance Request

"you're not going to influence the draft lists for the first 2 to 5 captains by talking to them"

Actually that is not entirely true... we were Captain #2 and had a team approach us morning of day 2...
Forum: General Forum 14-04-2016, 14:54
Replies: 58
Views: 4,825
Posted By Boltman
Re: Is CAD essential to all teams?

Not essential..can help

We uses CAD mainly to figure out overall bot dimensions for what we wanted to do and bumper placement in first week or so. It was something "to do" until the parts came in.
Forum: Regional Competitions 14-04-2016, 13:38
Replies: 6
Views: 1,481
Posted By Boltman
Forum: Regional Competitions 13-04-2016, 18:40
Replies: 6
Views: 1,481
Posted By Boltman
Webcasts 2016 Week 7

Webcasts 2016 Week 7

Peachtree District State Championship Apr 13th to Apr 16th, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GSk6wu4orc

Michigan State Championship Apr 13th to Apr 16th,...
Forum: Scouting 13-04-2016, 12:15
Replies: 17
Views: 2,400
Posted By Boltman
Re: Make Scouting Fun?

KISS...

Students that want to contribute and are not drivers or engineers= good scouts
Sell the importance of scouting
Mentor needs to lead, scouts need to do the grunt work with the mentor
Meetings...
Forum: Rules/Strategy 12-04-2016, 20:16
Replies: 29
Views: 2,713
Posted By Boltman
Re: pinning being called consistently?

330 would have stayed there to shoot that high goal its not like they would have backed up at that point anyhow (thus not pinned as 330 chose to stop) and if you watch the video they were more...
Forum: Rules/Strategy 12-04-2016, 20:11
Replies: 29
Views: 2,713
Posted By Boltman
Re: pinning being called consistently?

"To prevent or stop something from moving" = PIN

More than 5 seconds then it should be called. The bot does not have to be touching anything to be considered pinned.

And yes every ref will call it...
Forum: General Forum 12-04-2016, 08:42
Replies: 48
Views: 2,919
Posted By Boltman
Re: Windows versus Mac

MY favorite system...

My Surface Pro 4 M3....these Hybrids are the future.

Runs Windows10 and Office 365 to perfection
Checks off every feature including Hello
Pen, track-pad, voice and touch
Best...
Forum: General Forum 11-04-2016, 18:02
Replies: 48
Views: 2,919
Posted By Boltman
Re: Windows versus Mac

Every system was hacked at Pwn2Own 2016 this year including Windows . Windows 10 is pretty anti-hacker though with UAC and MIC Windows since Vista has been a fairly tough target. Windows Phone has...
Forum: General Forum 11-04-2016, 17:58
Replies: 69
Views: 7,595
Posted By Boltman
Re: Everyone's A Winner?

With the growing concern over the effects of competition in youth sports programs this summer, many Canadian soccer associations eliminated the concept of keeping score.
Forum: General Forum 11-04-2016, 17:43
Replies: 48
Views: 2,919
Posted By Boltman
Re: Windows versus Mac

Windows 10/Windows Server 2016/Azure

Can't trust Apple to patch MACs (see XARA) Apple has no bug bounty program either. Overpriced as well.

Linux is good for stand alone systems and devices plus...
Forum: Regional Competitions 11-04-2016, 09:05
Replies: 38
Views: 10,468
Posted By Boltman
Re: Silicon Valley Regional (2016)

20 pts for Challenge/Scale (5 for the one red bot on the batter, 15 for 254 due to contact with Blue in last 20 "Free Scale")

G11 does not apply here both were heading toward SP IMO
Forum: Regional Competitions 09-04-2016, 12:42
Replies: 19
Views: 3,241
Posted By Boltman
Re: Webcasts 2016 Week 6

Back up..

"Had to restart, we don't have a hardline or anything this is an impromptu stream.
Should be up in a second. Fighting bandwidth issues. No sound as they aren't giving us the feed. "
Forum: Regional Competitions 09-04-2016, 09:39
Replies: 38
Views: 10,468
Posted By Boltman
Re: Silicon Valley Regional (2016)

1678 and 254 will pair up just like in CV..its what they do
Forum: FRC Game Design 08-04-2016, 21:12
Replies: 20
Views: 1,583
Posted By Boltman
Re: Where do you place Stronghold among other FRC games?

Well in my three years its the best... I did not hate RR...and AA was pretty much stronghold without defense breaching and climbing
Forum: Rules/Strategy 08-04-2016, 13:34
Replies: 23
Views: 3,256
Posted By Boltman
Re: What defines a field fault?

I could be wrong but IMO , FF are up to the Head Ref and from my understanding it is a fault that would likely affect the outcome of a match at the Head Ref discretion withe communication and...
Forum: Extra Discussion 08-04-2016, 13:29
Replies: 23
Views: 2,818
Posted By Boltman
Re: pic: Magnetic Grappling Hook

The acceleration applied to get magnet to engage on bar is relatively slow. So to properly position (big one) , then engage, then collapse then winch seems like that would be troublesome to say the...
Forum: Extra Discussion 08-04-2016, 13:18
Replies: 23
Views: 2,818
Posted By Boltman
Re: pic: Magnetic Grappling Hook

Pretty sure the 20 second time factor would preclude that design
Forum: Regional Competitions 08-04-2016, 12:00
Replies: 30
Views: 5,192
Posted By Boltman
Re: Lone Star Regional 2016

They lost and did not Breach or Capture
Forum: Regional Competitions 08-04-2016, 11:33
Replies: 15
Views: 2,529
Posted By Boltman
Re: 2016 Arizona West (Phoenix) Regional

They suceeded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCRmRWbGuyQ
Forum: Regional Competitions 08-04-2016, 11:32
Replies: 19
Views: 3,241
Posted By Boltman
Re: Webcasts 2016 Week 6

Thanks for the last minute video solution for everyone!
Forum: Regional Competitions 08-04-2016, 10:41
Replies: 19
Views: 3,241
Posted By Boltman
Re: Webcasts 2016 Week 6

Webcasts 2016 Week 6

Arizona West Regional Apr 6th to Apr 9th, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCRmRWbGuyQ (Thanks SM987 just in time! No audio)

Silicon Valley Regional Apr 6th to Apr 9th,...
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