Forum: Unsung FIRST Heroes
15-09-2005, 01:41
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Replies: 8
Views: 3,964
Re: UFH: Patrick Wang
Many thanks to everyone who has supported me in the last 6 years, as with any sort of awards i will do the customary read off of thanks to mentors, colleagues, and friends. The whole list is way too...
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Forum: General Forum
17-10-2003, 23:24
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Replies: 26
Views: 4,636
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Forum: General Forum
17-10-2003, 23:21
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Replies: 214
Views: 46,203
Rookie Teams
As far as i know, there will only be 26 rookie teams eligible for the Championship Event this year. These 26 teams will be the Rookie-All Stars.
If you are a Rookie team, you at basically at Tier...
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Forum: General Forum
30-05-2003, 23:11
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Replies: 36
Views: 5,490
Monta Vista
Monta Vista is #82.
Monta Vista Robotics Team
Team 115
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Forum: Rules/Strategy
15-04-2003, 21:57
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Replies: 6
Views: 894
2 van doors
only 1 van door was legal this year.
in 2001 you could have two van doors I think.
2002 didn't have van doors.
We got 2 van doors in our kit (probably a packing mistake) maybe that was the point...
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Forum: General Forum
15-04-2003, 20:20
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Replies: 50
Views: 9,889
Safety a Limiter
Remember that the field that we play in is not completely enclosed, and there are people standing to the sides. Effectively doubling the voltage would be doubling the power available to the robots. ...
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Forum: Rules/Strategy
15-04-2003, 20:05
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,697
The thing with wedges...
The way i look at it, if you build a robot with a wedge, that is legal.
However, if you choose to build a wedge, you are putting yourself in a grey zone, where the only thing judging what you do in...
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Forum: Championship Event
10-04-2003, 00:16
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Replies: 1
Views: 846
Need a Button Cutting thing at nationals
Im at houston right now and we did not bring our circle cutter to cut the buttons on paper
SO if any team can let us borrow their Circle cutter, we are team 115 in the Curie Division. Look around...
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Forum: FRC Game Design
07-04-2003, 01:40
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,457
The wonderfully useful bin, what are its origins?
I am curious to know the train of though that went into selecting this year's game piece.
I have though about it and to me it comes down to the question of the chicken and the egg.
Was the game...
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Forum: Championship Event
07-04-2003, 01:21
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,118
first time on a plane?!?!?!
Ok maybe i shouldn't act so surprised :)
Commercial Jets are much safer than cars just think of it that way.
You're less likely to die in a commercial jet than to die getting struck by lightning if...
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Forum: Electrical
07-04-2003, 01:09
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,594
OI Brownout
You should know that a sudden shift from full forward to full reverse under load on many transmissions causes a HUGE and sudden current draw. (In Excess of 100 amps for each motor for a brief period...
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Forum: General Forum
03-04-2003, 10:53
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,893
Pictures!
I've seen our robot do its stuff now i'm really interested to see how everyone else solved the problem.
Anyone who has stolen stacks have pictures of their mechanism? Or better pictures in...
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Forum: General Forum
03-04-2003, 01:31
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,893
Steal and Protect.
Akshay forgot to mention that we also protect the bins from any attack. The bins are totally enclosed while in transit and while awaiting placement on the far side. The more important part is...
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Forum: Motors
02-04-2003, 13:44
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Replies: 23
Views: 4,473
Shifter Clips
The Shifter Clips came out twice on us before we realized what was going on. Make sure you secure your shifter clips no matter where you are.
We are running in low, the seperation of the gearbox is...
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Forum: General Forum
02-04-2003, 10:24
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,702
California beg to differ
The Silicon Valley Regional in my experience has typically been on of the lesser "spirited" regionals, but this year was different.
There were many great rookie teams who came out here in force, all...
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Forum: Robot Showcase
02-04-2003, 10:15
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Replies: 3
Views: 2,003
:)
We got that same reaction from a lot of human players.
I'm happy that this year's game gives the human player a much greater ownership of what they do, what the human player does can have a great...
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Forum: General Forum
01-04-2003, 01:16
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,583
Score Inflation
Keeping all stacks up by no touching them does not benifit anyone.
If you add more points to the system all you get is score inflation. The loser score is higher, but the winner score is...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
30-03-2003, 14:54
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,880
Delphi Boards
I think that this board has been a great medium for showing support of a no-collusion game. Kudos to ChiefDelphi for providing this medium of communication!
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Forum: Regional Competitions
30-03-2003, 13:14
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,880
No Collusion at SVR
I'm happy to report that i didn't see a single round where collusion regarding the human player stacks occured.
While the FIRST representative notified us that they don't condone or condemn the...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
30-03-2003, 01:22
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Replies: 17
Views: 5,448
Nope for real
Man you guys are too cynical.
It really did happen, it's a great suit, I wonder what happened to that box...
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Forum: Website Design/Showcase
16-03-2003, 15:05
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,629
Bandwidth of SOAP website
First of all I'd like to start by thanking the SOAP team for hosting all this wonderful regionals footage, but I have to ask,
How much Bandwidth does your website go through during peak months,...
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Forum: General Forum
09-03-2003, 21:20
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,862
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Forum: Technical Discussion
09-03-2003, 18:17
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,030
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Forum: Regional Competitions
09-03-2003, 17:01
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,494
Qps
292 was the highest QP score at Sacramento,
hopefully FIRST will post the event datas soon..
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Forum: Regional Competitions
03-03-2003, 23:48
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Replies: 57
Views: 7,343
Depends what kind of day it is :)
No snow down here sir.
I'm sure it'll be nice weather for shorts. But then again I wear shorts everyday down in Cupertino :)
I'm glad we're actually going to have some room to manuever this year. ...
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At the competitions you can look like an idiot and nobody cares, that makes me happy... - Laura 1547 [more] 
