Forum: Pneumatics
11-11-2007, 16:04
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,086
Re: Pneumatics Resources
As for resources regarding pneumatics, I would say that the best place to start is on CD. Look into whitepages and the pneumatics section. I would have to personally suggest some of the powerpoints...
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Forum: General Forum
11-11-2007, 13:46
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,377
Re: To all students - Why do I do this ?
1. I had some idea that I wanted to go into engineering before FIRST, but it was FIRST and the experience it brings that solidified my decision.
2. I would have to say I am equally interested in...
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Forum: FIRST E-Mail Blast Archive
10-11-2007, 01:55
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Replies: 56
Views: 7,827
Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/Practice Match Poll
I would have to say option 3 is the most beneficial to teams. However, I would make one amendment having to do with those teams that want to go into the standby line. I think that all teams that...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
23-08-2007, 13:59
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,694
Re: pic: Team 237 @ Barnes and Noble
Barnes and Noble bookfairs are always the best...we have been doing them for the last 3 years and it has always been a blast :)
We were even lucky enough to find a sponsor one year, it was...
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Forum: General Forum
26-03-2007, 15:36
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Replies: 3,676
Views: 731,866
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Forum: Extra Discussion
26-03-2007, 08:04
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,198
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Forum: Thanks and/or Congrats
16-03-2007, 20:37
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Replies: 27
Views: 3,600
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Forum: Rules/Strategy
03-03-2007, 17:31
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,853
Flags...what will happen with them?
As I am sure many people have seen over this initial weekend, the alliance flags seem to be more of an annoyance than anything else.
The flags seemed to be the only parts of robots that were...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
01-02-2007, 23:23
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Replies: 17
Views: 3,325
Re: pic: 1889 coming togeather
It looks like the compressor head has been rotated 90 degrees....
I have no idea what that would fall under...but the compressor is thought of as a motor.
Just wondering if that would be modifying a...
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Forum: Electrical
29-01-2007, 14:56
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,490
Re: Power Distribution Block Grounding
Im not sure on the legality of this (actually tryin to find the answer myself)....
Couldnt you just run a ground from the distribution block to a smaller circuit board...the circuit boards have...
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Forum: Motors
29-01-2007, 14:40
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Replies: 78
Views: 15,949
Re: Banebot 56mm gearbox - double D related
I have been following the banebot transmission failure threads for some time now and now I feel teams need to take action.
We are currently running 2 CIMs on each gearbox...so we definately need to...
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Forum: SolidWorks
26-01-2007, 08:22
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,095
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Forum: General Forum
23-01-2007, 22:29
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Replies: 60
Views: 9,808
Re: How many teams are 100% student built
First off I would like to say that many of these mentor/ student built threads are based only on a person's mood at the time. Im sure that at some point people wanted to be 100% student or 100%...
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Forum: Electrical
22-01-2007, 22:54
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Replies: 12
Views: 3,005
Re: Whats the Robot Signal light for?
The way I have interpreted the signal LED is that it is in some ways a replacement for the diagnostics side of the old LEDs.
The color aspect of the old LED has been completely overtaken by the...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
20-01-2007, 23:26
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Replies: 15
Views: 4,674
Re: pic: Servo Controlled Valve
My best guess at an application would have to be some sort of cut off valve to lock in a vacum....seems like a solenoid would also provide the same effect
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Forum: Extra Discussion
15-01-2007, 17:31
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Replies: 40
Views: 7,486
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Forum: Rules/Strategy
10-01-2007, 22:25
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,640
Re: Spoiler Placement
Spoilers will decide many matches...I just hope more teams will realize that before they design some things.
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Forum: Technical Discussion
10-01-2007, 22:23
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,480
Re: Average height off the ground???
Dont get too discouraged if you are not building yet...just try to keep everything focused designing either general or specific. If it helps sometimes you can explain it to the engineers as trying...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
10-01-2007, 22:18
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Replies: 15
Views: 5,092
80/20 linear motion?
I have seen as well heard about the qualities of 80/20 and its linear motion ability.
We are looking into different methods of linear motion and when we came to 80/20 we could not understand how...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
10-01-2007, 21:31
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Replies: 45
Views: 6,183
Re: Banebot Gearbox
Has anyone tryed to put a big cim in the BB tranny?... and if so what kind of modifications did you have to make?
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Forum: General Forum
09-01-2007, 20:30
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,045
How to measure pressure in the tubes?
At this point, most teams probably have their tubes inflated (at least I hope so). However, I am unsure at to how many teams actually have them inflated to the right pressure.
My team inflated the...
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Forum: Motors
07-01-2007, 12:35
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Replies: 41
Views: 27,129
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Forum: General Forum
01-01-2007, 00:22
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,977
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Forum: Chit-Chat
24-12-2006, 15:24
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Replies: 13
Views: 4,758
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Forum: Rumor Mill
23-12-2006, 09:26
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Replies: 822
Views: 149,952
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