Forum: General Forum
12-04-2016, 22:15
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Views: 17,378
Re: Making STEM a better place for women
On the team I was a student, the rule was "absolutely not". It was repeatedly strongly expressed that there would be no visible relationship type stuff happening at robotics. I know that team members...
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Forum: General Forum
12-04-2016, 21:52
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Replies: 126
Views: 17,378
Re: Making STEM a better place for women
I think we have two camps misunderstanding each other. I could be wrong, it's happened once or twice before, but...
I don't think anyone on this thread is taking the position that the behavior I've...
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Forum: General Forum
11-04-2016, 18:53
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Replies: 126
Views: 17,378
Making STEM a better place for women
People of ChiefDelphi,
On one of the teams I have mentored, I watched one of my (female) students get sufficiently creeped out by a (male) student's behavior towards her that she was physically...
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Forum: General Forum
21-01-2016, 22:13
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Replies: 5
Views: 705
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Forum: General Forum
14-01-2016, 19:48
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Replies: 3
Views: 584
Re: Game Manual Help
rich2202 got it.
I especially want to call out the Team Update section on that page. Keep your eyes out, as we'll see weekly updates to the manual throughout the season. There's important stuff in...
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Forum: C/C++
14-01-2016, 18:08
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,631
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Forum: C/C++
14-01-2016, 18:00
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,631
Re: No robot code on roboRIO
And just to verify, this roboRIO has had its firmware updated (https://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s/4485/m/13503/l/273817-updating-your-roborio-firmware) and has been imaged...
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Forum: NI LabVIEW
14-01-2016, 17:50
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Replies: 5
Views: 831
Re: How Do I Even
Agree. For the benefit of everyone here, the path is thus:
Programs > FIRST Robotics Competition > Game and Season, and then in the Quick Links click Technical Resources, then select Electrical and...
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Forum: NI LabVIEW
08-01-2012, 16:21
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,188
Re: Labview Invert Motors with Push of Button
Might be a good idea to post either the VI in question and/or a screenshot of said VI.
I'm not a LabVIEW guy myself, just noting that we'll need to see what exactly you are looking at.
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Forum: General Forum
08-01-2012, 15:08
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Replies: 3
Views: 788
Re: rebound rumble
It is carpet, per section 2.2.1 of part 2 of the Game Manual (http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/competition-manual-and-related-documents). I do not mean this to lack any charity and would...
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Forum: General Forum
07-01-2012, 12:47
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Replies: 76
Views: 14,000
Re: 2012 Catalyst Simulator question
I was able to register with a team I know I'm set in TIMS as a mentor; I'm not sure but it seems that they might be cross-checking the info you enter against TIMS or something. I was able to get to...
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Forum: General Forum
07-01-2012, 12:40
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Replies: 237
Views: 19,470
Re: 2012 Kickoff Discussion
http://youtu.be/A_3pKX-ch7k is the one I uploaded; there's probably better quality copies floating around at this point but that's workable.
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Forum: Rules/Strategy
07-01-2012, 12:39
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,219
Re: Decrypted 2012 Game Manual
Just make sure to pull down your mirror after usfirst comes back up. Traditionally, FIRST isn't too happy about us mirroring their content like this. That might have changed recently, but as I recall...
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Forum: Electrical
11-01-2011, 12:00
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,539
Re: good way to keep spare batteries topped off??
Wow...thank you!
http://media.wpi.edu/News/Events/Robotics/First/2009/Conference/2009CON_Robot_Electrical_Design_Skierkiewicz.wmv
That is a wonderful presentation! I would definitely recommend it.
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Forum: Programming
27-04-2010, 16:49
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Replies: 25
Views: 2,884
Re: Demystifying autonomous...
This is exactly the kind of thing that is so hard to explain to non-believers. What they don't realize is that the robot is more literal than their 7-year-old boy cousin, and completely unable to do...
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Forum: Programming
08-04-2010, 23:07
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Replies: 25
Views: 2,884
Demystifying autonomous...
I just had a bit of a brain blast. It probably won't be so great grammatically or organizationally because I'm not feeling so hot right now, but wanted to write this down.
It is so difficult to...
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Forum: Programming
05-04-2010, 19:17
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,253
Re: Modular Autonomous?
Boom! You are thinking like a professional programmer now.
Nobody wants to do more work than they have to. Copy-and-paste sucks and is generally considered bad practice. Also, code like...
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Forum: Programming
04-04-2010, 02:46
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Replies: 151
Views: 21,970
Re: why blame the programmers??
So, this season 2586 had a straightforward 4wd drivetrain, with an AndyMark Toughbox on each side. It worked wonderfully after the mechanicals put it together, all the way through practice.
However,...
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Forum: Rules/Strategy
18-03-2010, 23:58
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,081
Re: Scoring System Problems
This is perhaps the most perplexing of the field faults for me, mostly because I have a hard time wrapping my mind around how you mess this up.
Does anyone know of a legitimate reason the real-time...
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Forum: Programming
18-03-2010, 12:04
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,804
Re: Windows 7 compatibility--any issues?
That thread really appears to be referring to updating the DS itself, which IMO is an _awful_ idea (not sure if it is, but it should be illegal to modify anything that low-level DS-side). I am not...
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Forum: Programming
18-03-2010, 10:41
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,804
Windows 7 compatibility--any issues?
Hello,
I have been unable to find this info anywhere else, but I'm about to upgrade from Vista to Win7 on the team laptop (NOT the DS--I'm aware that must remain unmodified) and I wanted to ask if...
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Forum: Electrical
05-03-2010, 22:19
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,470
Buying battery wire online?
I am having a hard time finding a source for more battery wire.
We need to rebuild our set of batteries, as general use (and some poor oversight from mentors previously) has resulted in us having...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
05-03-2010, 22:03
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,151
Re: Week one regional control system showstoppers
I'm sure FIRST knows of our woes. We are all irritated by the same plague of problems, but I imagine that the best we can do is suck it up.
I've seen some oddness when sleeping the DS, so I would...
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Forum: C/C++
16-02-2010, 19:09
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,003
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Forum: Pneumatics
16-02-2010, 18:59
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,583
Re: Stuttering compressor
Your wiring looks fine.
Have you measured the resistance across that pressure switch like I mentioned before? It is possible that your switch is defective. That switch should open (resistance...
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