Forum: Dean Kamen's Inventions
01-09-2004, 11:01
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,497
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Forum: General Forum
17-04-2004, 08:34
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Replies: 95
Views: 19,139
Re: National Championship or National Chairman's
The Championship is just about the robot. The Chairman's award is about the whole team. I think we'd have come to Atlanta to try for the Chairman's award (we won at our regional) even if we had to...
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Forum: General Forum
20-01-2004, 12:14
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Replies: 32
Views: 2,588
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Forum: General Forum
20-01-2004, 11:48
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,198
Exam week during build season
Lots of schools have midterm or final exams during build season. How does your team handle that? Are the reduced hours for students, more hours or the same as any other week? How does the FIRST team...
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Forum: General Forum
15-01-2004, 10:25
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,201
Re: PVC Wobbly in goal?
The pipes in the goals at the Manchester kickoff seemed pretty tight in the holes when I tried them. In other words I pulled on them to see if they'd come right out and they didn't. It would have...
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Forum: General Forum
11-01-2004, 19:34
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Replies: 29
Views: 2,854
Re: Raising the bar...or lowering it?
I visited a college robotics lab not too long ago. They had a sign that said "real robots don't need a remote control." THink about what difference that would make to FIRST.
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Forum: Dean Kamen's Inventions
06-01-2004, 16:11
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Replies: 0
Views: 898
Segway Soccer
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2003/123103/Bots,_humans_play_together_123103.html
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University are betting that putting humans and robots on the same soccer team will...
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Forum: Programming
29-12-2003, 14:24
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Replies: 2
Views: 2,070
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Forum: Dean Kamen's Inventions
08-11-2003, 12:10
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Replies: 0
Views: 935
Segway at PDC
The other week was the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in LA. Segway had a big set up. The lines were long but not unreasonable throughout the exhibit hall hours for people to ride one...
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Forum: Dean Kamen's Inventions
08-11-2003, 12:07
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,572
Segway too complicated?
a pair of interesting web articles
http://tlb.org/scooter.html
http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=segway_more_complicated_than_it_needs_to_be
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Forum: Dean Kamen's Inventions
08-11-2003, 12:06
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,376
More Segway on TV
I saw some TV show where they tour the homes of the rich and famus. They did Shaq O'Neil's house and showed him riding a Segway around the house.
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Forum: General Forum
15-09-2003, 15:06
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,878
Just use your school's number. If the principal...
Just use your school's number. If the principal doesn't have it the Business Manager of the district will. Trying to set up a new independent non-profit is almost as much work as building the robot...
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Forum: Dean Kamen's Inventions
19-08-2003, 20:39
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,261
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Forum: Programming
18-08-2003, 15:47
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Replies: 131
Views: 17,516
A little bit of a lot of things. Some operating...
A little bit of a lot of things. Some operating systems internals. There was a print/batch system where some of the work was done in Assembly language and some in BASIC (Basic-PLUS actually). I've...
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Forum: Programming
18-08-2003, 09:21
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Replies: 131
Views: 17,516
TOtally is not a word I used. There are a few...
TOtally is not a word I used. There are a few cases where C++ may be a better language is some ways then some other languges. But few programmers will ever see the need to use them. Someone doing...
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Forum: Programming
16-08-2003, 00:12
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Replies: 131
Views: 17,516
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Forum: Programming
11-08-2003, 20:51
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Replies: 131
Views: 17,516
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Forum: Programming
11-08-2003, 17:35
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Replies: 131
Views: 17,516
Do you mean C++ or C#? C++ is not a very good...
Do you mean C++ or C#? C++ is not a very good language. C# is an outstanding language. How good is C#? It is so good that a bunch of Microsoft hating, Linux loving developers are creating an open...
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Forum: Programming
09-08-2003, 20:53
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Replies: 131
Views: 17,516
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Forum: Programming
09-08-2003, 19:03
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Replies: 131
Views: 17,516
Actually the last couple of years Microsoft HAS...
Actually the last couple of years Microsoft HAS given FIRST teams a free copy of Visual Studio.
And it's not all that expensive for schools anyway. With the MSDN AA for High Schools program a high...
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Forum: Website Design/Showcase
12-07-2003, 09:30
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Replies: 37
Views: 3,865
Actually there is quite a community around...
Actually there is quite a community around Microsoft products. You should visit the Microsoft.public news groups or sites like www.gotdotnet.com. There are all sorts of people there willing to hep...
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Forum: Programming
13-06-2003, 19:27
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Replies: 131
Views: 17,516
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Forum: Website Design/Showcase
12-06-2003, 17:35
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Replies: 37
Views: 3,865
Microsoft is not all "in it" what ever...
Microsoft is not all "in it" what ever that means for the money. I know a lot of Microsoft people, including some of the ones responsible for FIRST getting money, and being in it for the money is not...
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Forum: Programming
12-06-2003, 16:00
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Replies: 131
Views: 17,516
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Forum: Website Design/Showcase
11-06-2003, 22:29
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Replies: 37
Views: 3,865
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