Forum: General Forum
20-03-2016, 12:51
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Replies: 3
Views: 680
Re: Spy Hand Signals
We have implemented the hand signals for the spy with our team. A few of them were derived from another great team in our area, 1939, and their signals from Aerial Assist since they were clear and...
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Forum: Team Organization
06-03-2016, 09:42
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,835
Re: Team Member Expectations
My team meets 6p-9p every Monday through Friday and 9:30 to 3:30 every Saturday of build season as base hours. There is typically changes in who may be asked to come one night or added hours for a...
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Forum: Electrical
31-01-2016, 12:47
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,526
Re: Rules Question
We used a form of a "two layer" electrical panel for Aerial Assist. Since the most of our inner area of our robot was reserved for the ball/shooter, the bottom of our board was also our skid...
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Forum: General Forum
30-01-2016, 18:41
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Replies: 31
Views: 5,706
Re: Have not started building
CAD was finished around week 1, and we've been building our prototype robot which is close enough to being finished to make me confident and positive in our design. For electrical our board is...
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Forum: General Forum
24-01-2016, 23:26
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,975
Re: Robotics Shop Playlist
Last year we listened to the Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix Vol. 1 soundtrack almost every day for the start of the season since it got too distracting (and old) after a while. Since our main...
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Forum: General Forum
24-01-2016, 23:21
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Replies: 182
Views: 29,669
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Forum: Rules/Strategy
10-01-2016, 20:09
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,493
Re: Robot Extension Limitations
In 3.4.5 it starts with G17 which states the robot must stay in the 54" height on a flat floor "except during the final twenty (20) seconds of TELEOP where there is no heigh limit when a ROBOT is...
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Forum: Rules/Strategy
10-01-2016, 19:46
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,493
Re: Robot Extension Limitations
By the description of that theoretical part of the robot, I believe our team has also looked into that strategy. I think the simple option would be to just make sure it cannot extend 15" outside of...
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Forum: General Forum
08-01-2016, 17:45
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,600
Re: The hype train departs...
I get the honor of going to our local Kickoff at Garmin to pick up the KOP after watching the livestream before heading back to school. Our team is on our own this year but we are trying Kickoff...
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Forum: General Forum
08-01-2016, 17:39
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,061
Re: What should we buy before kickoff?
Based off of experience I would definitely say get any common goods and consumables as we call them. Anything simple and small that runs out can put building to a hault, and the first week is good to...
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Forum: General Forum
12-12-2015, 23:06
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,708
Re: Number of students on your team
This year we have 61 exactly but no more than 40 usually show up to every meeting, which is how many we had last year. We have a stricter attendance program that we're ready to fully implement...
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Forum: General Forum
12-12-2015, 22:54
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Replies: 25
Views: 4,540
Re: Kickoff day
Our plans as a team has varied for the past four years I've been on my team with being on our own in our school's cafeteria and this year the media center. Last year a team on the other side of the...
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Forum: General Forum
10-11-2015, 18:10
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Replies: 39
Views: 9,841
Re: Team Standards Design
I don't know about a Chrome app but I know pixlr (pixlr.com/editor) is pretty much an online PS basics if that helps! I use it a ton when my software is acting up.
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Forum: Team Organization
24-06-2015, 15:27
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Replies: 28
Views: 4,629
Re: Recruiting Girls
Interacting with girls is a big point of it all I noticed. For a few years I've brought our robots to the Girl Scout Day Camp I work at where my name is actually Robot along with another girl from...
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Forum: Championship Event
07-04-2015, 19:30
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Replies: 169
Views: 29,175
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Forum: Championship Event
07-04-2015, 19:26
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Replies: 169
Views: 29,175
Re: The 2015 Grand Shirt Trading Thread
I will be there for Friday and most or all of Saturday and can guarantee one medium team 1810 t-shirt, and possibly two or three of them. More sizes could be optional?
Here's photos of them for how...
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Forum: General Forum
21-03-2015, 19:20
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,340
Re: Digital Calendar Sharing
We have a team Gmail and I use the Google Calendar for the account with all of the things that we're doing. I have it on our team website, and it's through Wix so it has the Google Calendar app so it...
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Forum: General Forum
17-03-2015, 19:45
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Replies: 28
Views: 3,671
Re: Drive Team Fatigue
I have to make sure that I take breaks throughout the days of competitions. Thankfully for us we had really nice weather last weekend for our regional and it was so nice outside. We make sure to find...
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Forum: General Forum
15-03-2015, 18:04
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,413
Re: Music Video Played at Regionals?
They have played it at least at all of the regionals I've watched/been to. It's a really funny video, and the parts that got the most laughs at GKC was "We had to do an all-nighter" with caffeine,...
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Forum: General Forum
14-03-2015, 21:06
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Replies: 72
Views: 12,856
Re: Problem's with 2015…
I found it boring personally, even though my roll as a driver may have a part to that, but to those who are stuck in the stands scouting they indeed thought it was boring. The only ones I found...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
05-03-2015, 17:54
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Replies: 102
Views: 24,849
Re: 2015 Arkansas Rock City Regional
I really wish we were going again. So many teams that we're close with go, and we were there both inaugural and last year. And so many great memories! Good luck to all of the teams going!!
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Forum: General Forum
02-03-2015, 19:24
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Replies: 65
Views: 9,987
Re: Drive Team
Me and our other driver are best friends as well as overall team co-captains together with another junior on the team.
He is head of mechanical, knows pneumatics, and does CAD at the beginning of...
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Forum: General Forum
01-03-2015, 08:47
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Replies: 15
Views: 3,340
Re: Go-Pro on Robot
It's definitely legal, we've used them since Ultimate Ascent. It can both be helpful and entertaining to see what you can with it. It was especially fun with Ultimate Ascent since our robot, Mater,...
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Forum: Rules/Strategy
01-03-2015, 08:38
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,686
Re: Human Player Zones
I would think that they are the ones who hand the totes from the back of the alliance station to the other human players who are at the feeder stations. I watched the Dallas Live Stream yesterday but...
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Forum: General Forum
20-02-2015, 23:43
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Replies: 114
Views: 12,717
Re: Robot Names 2015
Originally we were going to name ours the Two Towers from LOTR since we have our internal stacking area and our electrical housing area which were two "towers" but we voted against it.
We have an...
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The version that finished nationals was about 50% aluminum and 50% the original PVC and we never had any member break. (structural member, not team member). - Gary Dillard [more] 
