Forum: Electrical
23-02-2006, 20:23
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,716
Good Switch For Autonomous Mode Select
just wanted to share this info. On our robot for the past few years we have been using a SCSI drive select switch. It digitally selects the decimal values from 0-9, giving us 10 modes in autonomous....
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Forum: General Forum
19-01-2005, 15:57
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,583
Re: Four wheel drive question
We used 4x drive last year and it was great, this year we are modifying the setup to have the same. I have not checked with the mech team this week, but I know the conversion is underway from 2 wheel...
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Forum: General Forum
19-01-2005, 11:35
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Replies: 38
Views: 12,249
Re: Is allowing a practice robot good for FIRST?
One thing that is the big equalizer at First competitions is the random pick of the partners. Last year in Atlanta our team made it to the Semi-Finals in the Newton division. We clearly were not the...
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Forum: General Forum
19-01-2005, 11:19
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Replies: 10
Views: 3,095
Re: Archimedes Screw
We were looking at this type of collapse design, if you look at a typical 4 foot aluminum extension ladder, you can get 8 feet easily with a "lead screw" or
a winch and pulley.
If you are set on...
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Forum: General Forum
17-01-2005, 21:09
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,525
Re: number of joysticks
Not that you asked this, but depending on the design our drivers have always found it handy to have several panic buttons on the control panel besides the joysticks and joystick buttons.
The "panic...
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Forum: Team Organization
25-04-2004, 12:57
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Replies: 34
Views: 4,553
Re: School problems
[QUOTE=JIN]Our school administration is really constricting our team at the moment.
Stuff deleted..
On team 811, We are at a private high school so it raises some other issues, for example all...
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Forum: General Forum
22-04-2004, 22:26
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,098
Re: new FIRST store?
I spent a lot of time with the reps of the store as they are out of Manchester NH, which is close to Nashua, NH where I live. I also wanted the jean jacket, but was told to order it.. so I plan on...
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Forum: Championship Event
22-04-2004, 22:14
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Replies: 39
Views: 3,556
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Forum: General Forum
19-04-2004, 20:53
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Replies: 48
Views: 3,747
Re: coolest mascot
The big red bird was once again there with team 811 this year....(its a cradinal fyi ;-))
as for the skin tight blue tick outfit.. one has to be quite comfortable with one's self to hop into that...
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Forum: Thanks and/or Congrats
18-04-2004, 20:08
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Replies: 3
Views: 868
Thank you 322 and 176 from 811
322 and 176:
This is a huge Thank you from Team 811 in the 2004 Newton Finals.
We had an awesome run at the division finals.. came down to the last match..what an adrenaline rush for all of...
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Forum: General Forum
18-04-2004, 19:51
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,017
Re: FIRST on HowStuffWorks.com
I think I saw a team that was sponsored by howstuffworks.com when we were in Atlanta.
I was reading a shirt and the sponsor list had howstuffworks.com as a sponsor.
Ken Leigh
Team 811
Controls...
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Forum: Championship Event
18-04-2004, 19:21
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Replies: 63
Views: 10,917
Re: Best robots at Nationals
We played against 67 in the NEWTON finals and came in 2nd to them. Their machine was just rock solid..quick..great hanger, solid autonomous mode.
Ken Leigh
Team 811 Contols Mentor
BGHS Nashua, NH
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Forum: Programming
19-01-2003, 16:08
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Replies: 33
Views: 3,971
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Forum: General Forum
19-01-2003, 16:01
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Replies: 69
Views: 7,433
All:
I am one of the mentors on Team 811 and we...
All:
I am one of the mentors on Team 811 and we had a serious accident with a student and a table saw a week ago.
Short summary is that the student cut his thumb to the BONE on the table saw blade...
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