Forum: General Forum
29-12-2016, 07:53
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,371
Re: Practice Robot?
I am a mentor on a team that struggles to be larger than 12. Our robots are hand crafted...
This is the first year that we are even building a driving test chassis to have for the controls team. ...
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Forum: General Forum
19-12-2016, 09:30
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Replies: 36
Views: 2,601
Re: Minimum age for FRC?
For the use of power tools we require the student to be in 9th grade.
For coding, and other team functions we invite 8th grades that have been on the FTC team(s) to attend a couple of build sessions...
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Forum: Motors
23-11-2016, 11:30
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Replies: 59
Views: 5,519
Re: NeveRest 60 in FRC
We are playing the FTC game this year and have blown out 4 of the Neverest 20 gearboxes. This was because the middle school teams did not set them to float at motor power 0.. W hen the motor power...
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Forum: Programming
01-11-2016, 16:49
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,645
Re: Gyro vs. Encoders for Driving Straight
we used this approach and were good enough to cross the ramparts, rock wall, moat, and terrain and still score a low goal about 50% of the time. We were always close to scoring as long as we did not...
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Forum: General Forum
22-09-2016, 19:12
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Replies: 80
Views: 5,693
Re: STEM vs. STEAM
I have not read every post in this thread but it seams that some of you seam to have missed the point. Art complements the STEM subjects... it is not a replacement of, but a complement to them. ...
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Forum: General Forum
05-09-2016, 16:08
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,883
Re: Team Member Accountability
We just made the switch from paper log to a quickbooks online timesheet.
This lets us create reports on a weekly/monthly/quarterly basis.
Each team member has to log hours they want credit for...
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Forum: Programming
10-07-2016, 22:51
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Replies: 39
Views: 4,581
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Forum: General Forum
05-06-2016, 10:25
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Replies: 168
Views: 28,470
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Forum: General Forum
09-05-2016, 20:02
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Replies: 55
Views: 6,991
Re: Was the Low Bar worth it?
We specialized in breaching LB and had 6 inches of ground clearance which meant that sally/bridge were the only ones we could not cross without help.
Then with some practice and the spin move we...
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Forum: General Forum
01-05-2016, 08:44
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Replies: 55
Views: 13,976
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Forum: Programming
24-04-2016, 19:02
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,506
Re: Using PID in autonomous to keep straight
We did not use a PID just the Proportional part of it... and it is good enough to cross the ramparts in auto, then spin 180 and cross them again during lab work. We never had any issues staying...
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Forum: General Forum
22-04-2016, 20:04
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Replies: 50
Views: 6,346
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Forum: General Forum
19-04-2016, 20:29
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Replies: 50
Views: 6,346
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Forum: General Forum
25-02-2016, 13:37
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,623
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Forum: General Forum
22-02-2016, 09:01
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Replies: 85
Views: 13,222
Re: Update 12
Yes... I saw more than one bot having issues at the Oxford MI Week Zero event. We even pinched one in the drivetrain... and we required a boulder-ectimy.
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Forum: Programming
05-02-2016, 08:21
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Replies: 7
Views: 975
Re: Is it possible for GRIP to find the boulder?
while it is not a video feed we were able to process a boulder while it was sitting on a beige table.
It did take some work to get the middle range of RGB to isolate most of the boulder in the...
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Forum: Programming
04-02-2016, 11:33
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Replies: 4
Views: 849
Re: GRIP Issues with RPi2
Great open CV on RP2
http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2015/02/23/install-opencv-and-python-on-your-raspberry-pi-2-and-b/
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Forum: Programming
03-02-2016, 08:40
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Replies: 15
Views: 3,656
Re: Grip running out of memory
Here is the first stop for GRIP on RPi2
https://github.com/WPIRoboticsProjects/GRIP/wiki/Running-GRIP-on-a-Raspberry-Pi-2
I spent yesterday making GRIP run on Linux Mint 17.3 so that I could play...
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