Forum: General Forum
13-03-2016, 22:10
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Views: 7,290
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Forum: General Forum
07-07-2015, 18:48
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Replies: 219
Views: 26,727
Re: FIRST Chesapeake Districts
I just thought I would post the slide in the presentation showing the driving distance to the district championship overlayed with the 2015 team map.
http://i.imgur.com/BteVQoa.jpg?1
Each ring is...
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Forum: General Forum
20-02-2015, 10:24
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,592
Re: Robotics beyond High School
In my senior year of high school, I felt that there was very little else I could learn from my team engineering wise. (I still learned a lot about managing and communicating) So when I got to the...
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Forum: Electrical
07-01-2015, 11:39
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Replies: 24
Views: 4,571
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Forum: General Forum
03-11-2014, 13:08
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Replies: 45
Views: 6,759
Re: [FRC Blog] Something New - SWE Grant
[QUOTE=Lil' Lavery;1407044]The driver requirement is leaving me scratching my head. Why must "driver" be the leadership position they chose for this grant? There are plenty of other high profile...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
20-08-2014, 16:41
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Replies: 31
Views: 3,718
Re: Which Gearbox Should I Use?
It's great to see that your team wants to experiment in the offseason with different drive trains! My team tried building a 6 wheel WCD in the off season a few years ago and probably wont go back for...
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Forum: General Forum
11-06-2014, 00:39
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Replies: 129
Views: 24,816
Re: Confirmed New Districts for 2015?
I think thats just speculation. I thought the real reason was how large the costs were for the two regionals were both being in major expensive convention centers. I remember hearing that the old DC...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
22-05-2014, 19:24
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Replies: 32
Views: 6,989
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Forum: Technical Discussion
22-05-2014, 18:18
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Replies: 32
Views: 6,989
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Forum: Technical Discussion
14-05-2014, 22:54
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Replies: 47
Views: 5,985
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Forum: Technical Discussion
14-05-2014, 21:59
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Replies: 47
Views: 5,985
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Forum: Technical Discussion
14-05-2014, 20:51
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Replies: 47
Views: 5,985
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Forum: General Forum
14-05-2014, 20:13
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,666
Re: Need help with west coast drive.
West coast drives have a very specific type of gearbox, which has the gearbox's output shaft directly connected to the center wheel (if it is a 6wd). It also has chain/belt running through the center...
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Forum: General Forum
29-04-2014, 16:57
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Replies: 33
Views: 5,668
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Forum: General Forum
27-04-2014, 21:53
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,984
Re: What are your thoughts of Aerial Assist now?
Yes this has always been the case, but one could argue that it was especially bad this year. The necessity of robots working together combined with a build season plagued by inclimate weather created...
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Forum: General Forum
27-04-2014, 21:48
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Replies: 15
Views: 3,626
Re: New School / New Opportunity: FIRST or VEX?
In your situation, I would lean towards FRC over Vex. However, before I would choose one, I would bring a local team in a local team and see your students reaction (maybe try talking to 2848. They...
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Forum: Championship Event
26-04-2014, 15:20
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Replies: 6
Views: 4,520
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Forum: General Forum
23-04-2014, 16:50
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,389
Re: Vendor Listing - Who would you add?
Online metals is just great. As an east coast team I got a little scared seeing that they were based out of Seattle it would take a while to ship across the country. However, when we ordered it came...
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Forum: General Forum
12-04-2014, 11:48
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Replies: 59
Views: 10,165
Re: What was there before AndyMark?
I feel as FIRST has evolved over the last 20 or so years, teams have started to converge on similar designs. Back in the day, (really before 2010) I don't feel teams had a lot of experience building...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
09-04-2014, 21:48
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Replies: 83
Views: 14,768
Re: 2014 Chesapeake Regional
Sadly that looks like the best way from JHU to UMD by public transportation, however remember there are tons of Balmore teams that you could probably reach out to for a ride.
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Forum: General Forum
06-04-2014, 11:14
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Replies: 23
Views: 5,133
Re: Bad Robots
I see your FTC team is based in the Capital Region, so you must have either attended the Greater DC regional or the Chesapeake regional.
In general, this region was especially hit hard this build...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
30-03-2014, 10:23
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Replies: 35
Views: 4,745
Re: 2014 Greater DC Regional
449 had a blast! The elimination rounds were some of the most intense matches I have ever watched in FRC.
To start, big thanks to our alliance partners 587, 2849, and our replacement bot 4456. All...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
28-03-2014, 08:51
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Replies: 35
Views: 4,745
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Forum: Control System
22-03-2014, 12:54
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Replies: 3
Views: 857
Re: Unrepeatable CAN problems
This is our first year running this drive train. It is a 6CIM west coast drive using the WCP single speed transmissions geared for 14 feet per second.
However, we were very rarely changing...
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Forum: Control System
22-03-2014, 11:29
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Replies: 3
Views: 857
Unrepeatable CAN problems
All,
449 got back from our first competition about a week ago and we were having a lot of controls problems throughout the entire competition. Note, the problems have to either be electrical or...
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Now if MTV had an episode of "Made" where the school's top jock wanted to drive a FIRST's teams robot to victory...now that would be a good one. - Koko Ed [more] 
