Forum: General Forum
18-05-2015, 21:05
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Replies: 261
Views: 34,020
Re: ChampionSplit: A Historical Perspective
This is perhaps the most relevant piece of information in this thread.
Even if 25% of teams could go to the championship in a given year, it is simply untrue that every team would be able to go...
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Forum: General Forum
01-05-2015, 16:50
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Replies: 79
Views: 14,664
Re: Cheesecake: How far is too far?
I believe you are right about this. This puts struggling teams who actually attempt to accomplish the game challenge at a competitive disadvantage compared to those teams who anticipate...
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Forum: General Forum
01-05-2015, 14:49
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Replies: 79
Views: 14,664
Re: Cheesecake: How far is too far?
I don't believe that anyone is talking about limiting a team's ability to help another team.
Perhaps we can make four distinctions:
1. Team A brings COTS and stock and helps team B with their...
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Forum: General Forum
30-04-2015, 21:11
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Replies: 79
Views: 14,664
Re: Cheesecake: How far is too far?
What would be the problem with the following rule? (Yes, I've brought this up in another thread, but it seems relevant here.)
"FABRICATED ITEMS/MECHANISMS/COMPONENTS brought into an event...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
30-04-2015, 00:01
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,567
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Forum: General Forum
29-04-2015, 12:39
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Replies: 52
Views: 12,352
Re: Tips to make your team a contender?
Mentors.
FRC is a game of mentors.
Just about all of the fabulous ideas in this thread come down to this one thing.
Build and diversify the mentor base, and everything else can follow.
- Mr....
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Forum: General Forum
27-04-2015, 20:03
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Replies: 110
Views: 23,198
Re: The cheesecake runaway
How about:
The Withholding Allowance (or perhaps anything brought into the competition venue) is limited to Spare or Upgrade MECHANISMS/COMPONENTS for the team's (not alliance's) robot. ...
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Forum: General Forum
27-04-2015, 17:34
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Replies: 110
Views: 23,198
Re: The cheesecake runaway
Some questions about "cheesecake":
Team A has a MECHANISM brought in with the intent of giving it to their alliance partner. What happens when another team asks if they can have it?
Team A begins...
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Forum: Championship Event
25-04-2015, 23:15
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Replies: 44
Views: 13,017
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Forum: General Forum
16-03-2015, 17:09
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Replies: 230
Views: 41,261
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Forum: General Forum
16-03-2015, 16:14
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Replies: 230
Views: 41,261
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Forum: Electrical
21-02-2015, 15:12
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Replies: 1
Views: 819
Battery Differences?
I see that there are many different brands/makes of batteries that meet the basic specifications in the manual, with considerable differences in prices. Anyone have experience with brands like APEX?...
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Forum: General Forum
20-02-2015, 12:33
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Replies: 203
Views: 40,680
Re: Mentor/Student Involvement Philosophies
This is probably the most important thing said here.
The Game (winning and losing) is primarily a game of mentors. The experience of doing the whole thing is something completely different -...
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Forum: General Forum
20-02-2015, 00:54
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Replies: 114
Views: 12,717
Re: Robot Names 2015
In keeping with our long standing "medical" theme...
Hematologist - He-Man for short.
- Mr. Van
Coach, Robodox
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Forum: General Forum
13-02-2015, 14:51
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Replies: 203
Views: 40,680
Re: Mentor/Student Involvement Philosophies
One of the issues that this brings up is how FRC events are perceived by the viewing public. Over and over again, I hear people in the stands say "There is no way students made that by themselves." ...
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Forum: General Forum
12-02-2015, 23:54
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Replies: 203
Views: 40,680
Re: Mentor/Student Involvement Philosophies
I'm not sure that everyone sees it this way. In fact, clearly there are many, many teams who don't (or haven't thought about it much). Numerous teams openly pride themselves on the relationship...
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Forum: General Forum
12-02-2015, 23:24
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Replies: 203
Views: 40,680
Re: Mentor/Student Involvement Philosophies
I can understand the frustration here. FIRST Robotics is unlike any other sort of competition that high schoolers participate in. It can be very difficult for many to understand the disparity that...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
12-02-2015, 16:44
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,023
Re: Design and engineering mgmt rules
We have a whole series of checklists - one for each subsystem of the robot (drive, electronics, pneumatics, chassis/structural, manipulator 1, manipulator 2, etc.). The check lists are made each...
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Forum: General Forum
10-02-2015, 21:34
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Replies: 57
Views: 6,077
Re: What motors are you using for your lift?
Robodox are using two old Bosch Van Door motors directly driving (via their included worm gearboxes) a 6" drum that has a few wraps of cord in a continuous loop lift.
- Mr. Van
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Forum: Motors
05-02-2015, 14:45
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,554
Re: Motor Identification Needed
That's the tried and true globe motor. Unfortunately, not legal this year (or for many prior years for that matter).
- Mr. Van
Coach, Robodox
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Forum: Technical Discussion
05-11-2014, 19:41
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,943
VEXPro 3-CIM Ball Shifter encoder?
We're looking at the Grayhill 63R series encoders for our VEXPro 3-CIM ball shifters.
Question what "Pulses per revolution" should we get? 256, 128, or 64? What are you using? Any issues with the...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
30-10-2014, 13:56
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Replies: 33
Views: 6,042
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Forum: Regional Competitions
23-10-2014, 18:29
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Replies: 73
Views: 12,250
Re: Event Waitlist and Capacity Transparency
Does this mean that a team that is "local" (and perhaps desirable for some reason) is free to try to get into a different regional knowing that their space at the local regional is "saved" for...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
23-10-2014, 14:56
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Replies: 73
Views: 12,250
Re: Event Waitlist and Capacity Transparency
It would be nice if the wait list was cleared via some sort of priority system as Karthik suggests. Unfortunately, proximity, team size, what the team can "bring to the event" (spirit, support,...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
25-09-2014, 12:27
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Replies: 448
Views: 86,785
Re: Registration 2015
In future years we need to do something different - like a registration period and a lottery system:
Teams indicate a 1st and 2nd choice within the registration period (say a week).
70% of spaces go...
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