Forum: General Forum
17-05-2016, 00:05
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Replies: 44
Views: 5,595
Re: Best Up-And-Coming Teams
3538 is going to be a top 10 team in MI very soon.
Although not a "new" team, originally established in 2011, a new mentor base re-constructed the team in 2014(?) to it's current state.
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Forum: Championship Event
30-04-2016, 23:51
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Replies: 34
Views: 5,918
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Forum: Robot Showcase
16-03-2016, 16:20
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Replies: 16
Views: 3,334
Re: 2016 HOTBOT
Mike / Ryan,
I assume there will be no tech notes posted (since I'm not there to make one ;) ), but can you walk through the specifics of the design?
There looks to be a bike cable in there...
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Forum: Robot Showcase
24-02-2016, 10:31
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Replies: 8
Views: 5,071
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Forum: Extra Discussion
01-05-2015, 13:43
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Replies: 14
Views: 5,277
Re: paper: 2015 FRC Championship History
Yep, says that exact thing right in the notes tab of the spreadsheet:
"An annual derating factor was applied to all past data. This causes the data from past years to have a diminishing effect on...
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Forum: Championship Event
30-04-2015, 11:27
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Replies: 38
Views: 10,149
Re: A Shared Victory on Einstein
Since we are throwing out cool and interesting stats: Starting with the 2003 season, we are 11/13 for atleast making the Division Finals. The only times we've missed playing for a chance on...
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Forum: General Forum
28-04-2015, 16:13
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Replies: 33
Views: 4,887
Re: Civil debates and dissenting opinions
Thank you for your response. It a perspective that is different than my own, since I don't visit anywhere other than CD. I don't have a Facebook, twitter, etc.. account and really can't relate to...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
28-04-2015, 14:21
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Replies: 32
Views: 5,034
Re: VEX Pro Parts Feedback, 2015
VEX needs to find a way to make the Versaplanetary gearboxes weigh essentially nothing... ;)
I mean, they are so versitile and easy to use that when you have (10) 2 stage gearboxes, (2) 3 stage...
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Forum: General Forum
28-04-2015, 14:06
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Replies: 33
Views: 4,887
Re: Civil debates and dissenting opinions
I think I saw the thread most people are referencing, although I'm not 100% sure, a lot of them were talking about essentially the same topic over and over.
Either way, I think everyone was...
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Forum: Championship Event
28-04-2015, 09:22
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Replies: 38
Views: 10,149
Re: A Shared Victory on Einstein
Congratulations to 1678, 118, 1671, and 5012 on the Einstein Victory! What a great sight to see all four teams earn their first FRC Championship.
I found myself sitting in the stands watching the...
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Forum: General Forum
27-04-2015, 21:07
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Replies: 47
Views: 8,246
Re: Einstein Can-Race Compilation Video
Yep, our's were inspired 100% by 548's design that we initally saw when we paired with them at Livonia. We started designing a set to be used at MSC (poly carb version) a couple days later. They...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
27-04-2015, 14:19
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Replies: 227
Views: 29,782
Re: IRI - 2015 Rule Modification Ideas?
Lets just trim each match down to the 15s auto period.
We can all work all summer long to create either the most awesome "Wave-like" tote stack / can grabbing machine... or the worlds fastest and...
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Forum: Championship Event
27-04-2015, 10:13
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Replies: 132
Views: 35,561
Thank you!
Public thank you to the teams and volunteers in the Carson division. We had a great experience participating and working with all our qualification partners. Volunteers were very friendly and...
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Forum: Championship Event
19-04-2015, 09:57
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Replies: 132
Views: 35,561
Re: 2015 Carson Division
Yuck! SOS 74 out of 76....lets go partners, we gotta do better than that! Gonna have to come up with some creative strategies to maximize our skills together.
Planning has started already. ...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
15-04-2015, 15:12
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Replies: 8
Views: 3,348
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Forum: Regional Competitions
13-04-2015, 10:58
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Replies: 77
Views: 19,991
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Forum: Robot Showcase
13-04-2015, 08:39
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Replies: 103
Views: 19,057
Re: Teams Capable of 3+ Full Stacks
Unfortunately we have never been able to put up 3 full stacks in competition. We were very close once at Livonia to doing it, but ended up dropping the can. Maybe someday...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
12-04-2015, 20:13
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Replies: 77
Views: 19,991
Re: Michigan State Championship
We were operating nowhere near full strength this weekend. We had high hopes, but given some of the circumstances, I think we overreached a little bit with what we were trying to do.
We had a...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
29-03-2015, 21:35
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Replies: 22
Views: 4,329
Re: 2015 FIM Livonia
Our third alliance member was 4405. Perfect compliment to our alliance...delivered cans to us both of us perfectly.
Really 548 was the star of the show. The canburglars were amazing, but their...
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Forum: Robot Showcase
17-03-2015, 15:00
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Replies: 29
Views: 7,006
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Forum: General Forum
12-03-2015, 12:57
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Replies: 19
Views: 4,905
Re: #FRCTop10
Interesting design fact: The can grabber was also designed with the ability to hold totes as an added bonus... so, if we really need to perform the co-op function for our alliance (ie; 2 better...
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Forum: General Forum
12-03-2015, 10:46
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Replies: 19
Views: 4,905
Re: #FRCTop10
Yeah, we're blaming Mike for a bunch of stuff. ;)
Actually his parts (co-op mechanism) are coming off the robot...so we can focus entirely on scoring stacks.
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Forum: General Forum
12-03-2015, 10:16
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Replies: 19
Views: 4,905
Re: #FRCTop10
Correct, we were only running stacks of 5 at Waterford. We were dealing with some other issues and we not able to get the hold down for a 6 stack operational in time to run it in matches.
We have...
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Forum: Robot Showcase
09-03-2015, 10:18
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Replies: 88
Views: 19,504
Re: #Team20PointAuton
HOT Team was able to finally accomplish the 20pt auto on Saturday morning in qualification rounds after eliminating all the potential match ending failure modes.
Here is an example of us running it...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
26-02-2015, 14:54
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,075
Re: What robot are you most proud of?
Your 2005 machine was amazing! I think we saw each other at Buckeye and in the Newton division and it was by far the best robot on the field at any time.
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