Forum: General Forum
04-11-2009, 02:44
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Replies: 3,676
Views: 731,866
Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
I think that as well; I was poking fun at it. :)
...every conversation you have with any engineering (chemical, biomedical, electrical, mechanical, etc.) or programmer/computer science major...
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Forum: General Forum
03-11-2009, 23:22
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Replies: 3,676
Views: 731,866
Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
Who said it was just the males admiring the engineering? ;) I'd love to take one apart...
And, you know you've overdosed on FIRST when you're in college, see that this thread has 2010 replies...
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Forum: General Forum
18-09-2009, 00:45
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Replies: 3,676
Views: 731,866
Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
...you go to your BME professor for academic advising, she asks you why you went into engineering, and you promptly launch into an enthusiastic twenty-minute explanation of FIRST and robotics. ...
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Forum: General Forum
12-07-2009, 12:41
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Replies: 132
Views: 15,288
Re: Why did you join FIRST?
In 2005, 766, with 217(!) and 245(!), won Archimedes. A couple of months later, they realized they needed to recruit because much of the team was graduating, and visited my 8th grade science class. ...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
15-06-2009, 21:17
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Replies: 10
Views: 3,392
Re: pic: Where did your robot go this weekend?
Nativity Carnival! There's an annual carnival that a local elementary and middle school hosts near our school, and our team and robot was one of the booths. We also got the opportunity to...
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Forum: Chit-Chat
12-05-2009, 23:03
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Replies: 526
Views: 63,846
Re: Team Numbers in Everyday Places
And you have Bionic Bulldogs posts! They are from Arizona, and were in Curie Division with us. :D
Oh. Now I have 178 posts. TBA tells me they are the 2nd Law Enforcers, from Connecticut. :)
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Forum: Chit-Chat
12-05-2009, 22:27
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Replies: 526
Views: 63,846
Re: Team Numbers in Everyday Places
I flew home from Atlanta, bought a slice of pizza. I nearly flipped out and frightened the cashier when the total came to $2.17.
I have seen $2.17, $2.45, $2.47, $2.53, $2.54, $2.56 and once...
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Forum: General Forum
07-05-2009, 00:55
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Replies: 98
Views: 17,192
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Forum: Championship Event
25-04-2009, 18:48
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Replies: 149
Views: 17,584
Re: Atlanta 2009 - Who's staying where?
766 was staying there as well. Some of you may have seen our team sprawled in the corner playing Mafia one night, and then Western chess and Chinese chess the other two;:D most of us stayed from...
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Forum: General Forum
22-04-2009, 01:19
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Replies: 39
Views: 5,083
Re: Lessons Learned - The Positive
This year's game was pretty exciting and allowed plenty of strategy discussion and variation. I loved the small opportunities to score, the fast-progressing game and the way that it got me to scream...
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Forum: General Forum
20-04-2009, 22:22
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Replies: 221
Views: 33,487
Re: Lessons Learned - The Negative
Something interesting I noticed about the Chairman's Award winners (Congratulations 236 TechnoTicks!); do they get any view of the field? It looks like it is near impossible to see the action where...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
02-04-2009, 00:58
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Replies: 46
Views: 5,030
Re: polyurethane tubing
This stuff is excellent as semi-slip material. It isn't grippy like rubber surgical tubing, but the problem is that it may not pick up as quickly (in my experience-we put tread on our bottom rollers...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
17-03-2009, 01:16
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Replies: 93
Views: 11,312
Re: 2009 SAC Regional
I have to say, while scouting I stood for a while right in front of some members of Gatorbotics. My ears have still not entirely recovered... I know and love both the Fembots and the Space Cookies...
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Forum: Electrical
15-03-2009, 18:06
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Replies: 19
Views: 5,313
Re: Battery Charging station
We recently got a five-battery charger, but before we just had the chargers that FIRST gave us. The new charger helps, but even without it, we always just had the batteries plugged into the charger...
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Forum: General Forum
11-02-2009, 02:08
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Replies: 4,808
Views: 1,188,398
Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season
So now that we only have 6 days left until the Kickoff, everyone's brains are getting more and more fried. There have definitely been more, but these are a few from our collection...
"Ducks make...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
21-01-2009, 02:47
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Replies: 93
Views: 11,312
Re: 2009 SAC Regional
Alright! Our team is definitely looking forward (no pun intended) to this regional. I remember that a few members of 100 came by last year just to say hello. It'll be great to have you guys back...
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Forum: General Forum
14-01-2009, 09:20
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Replies: 8
Views: 752
Re: measuring from bolt to bolt
At the regionals the inspector has the team shove their robot into a box frame that's 28 x 38 x 60 inside. I'm guessing that your 29" side needs to fit into the 28" side. If the bolts stick out...
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Forum: Robot Showcase
11-01-2009, 23:56
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,299
Re: not quite a robot, but a practice trailer
We built a trailer as well, and instead of using the Rover wheels on that, our trailer team attached strips of slippery teflon stuff to two normal Skyway wheels. The altered wheels seemed to work...
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Forum: General Forum
06-01-2009, 20:09
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Replies: 84
Views: 5,056
Re: Hours
Hmm, our team seems to use less time. Wednesdays and Fridays 5-9pm, Saturdays 9-5pm. Of course, we always stay later than officially posted, and during the last weekend before Ship we do not have...
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Forum: General Forum
05-01-2009, 17:48
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Replies: 30
Views: 2,998
Re: Green and pink painted robot (a good defence?)
I would say that paint is a decoration, not to mention the specific example of color-changing robots. And confusing a camera would certainly interfere with its accuracy, which was probably the whole...
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Forum: General Forum
01-01-2009, 23:21
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Replies: 98
Views: 21,695
Re: Teams I'm Inspired By
Teams 100, 692, 852 and 973! These are the ones I know personally and have not been mentioned here.
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Forum: General Forum
07-12-2008, 21:15
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,396
Re: A Musing on Forum Etiquette
How true.
Adam, that seems to be a universal thing as people over time get wiser. Adapted from Questionable Content, "Knowledge is knowing you were an idiot in the past, and common sense is...
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Forum: General Forum
15-11-2008, 20:25
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Replies: 27
Views: 3,800
Re: Pit design help
Someone mentioned batteries. We wrote on masking tape the word "fire" in five different languages and used each language to differentiate between each battery light and the ends of each cable...
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Forum: General Forum
15-11-2008, 20:10
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Replies: 22
Views: 3,000
Re: FIRST rule regarding team membership
It may depend on the school, since a friend of mine attends one high school which does have an FRC team, but does not allow freshmen or sophomores to join (it's an official class, meeting during...
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Forum: Robotics Education and Curriculum
05-11-2008, 22:38
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,114
Re: Machines for an Ideal Robotics Workshop?
Actually, with regards to the Toolbox that stays organized, we've found that freshmen works fairly well, and you get to combine cheap labor with the excuse "but we're letting the freshmen help!"
In...
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