Forum: General Forum
23-05-2016, 18:44
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,510
Mock FRC Game for team practice
To prepare students, rookie and veteran alike, our team tries to make a habit of doing a mock kick-off. To do this, we usually watch the kickoff video from a year prior that no student members have...
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Forum: General Forum
03-05-2016, 10:55
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Replies: 108
Views: 10,260
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Forum: Technical Discussion
03-05-2016, 10:48
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Replies: 55
Views: 6,710
Re: Stronghold Drivetrain Review
I'm almost scared to say it but.......swerve:ahh:
We did swerve, because our strategy was not to focus on crossing defences, although the drive train did work well against most in practice. Our...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
02-05-2016, 15:09
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Replies: 17
Views: 4,364
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Forum: Off-Season Events
02-05-2016, 15:08
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Replies: 152
Views: 19,782
Re: New Off-season Defenses
Why don't we do that? It will still allow robots designed solely for crossing defenses would still be able to cross, and it would make it easier for robots designed to shoot to do that. If anything,...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
02-05-2016, 14:37
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Replies: 152
Views: 19,782
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Forum: Championship Event
30-04-2016, 12:38
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Replies: 47
Views: 11,683
Re: Poofs Red Card Question?
They were tethered on the field before the match started, but there was an FTA with them. How could it be illegal?
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Forum: General Forum
27-04-2016, 08:29
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,677
Re: Load in and pits
I am volunteering and are assigned to work practice fields. They said for practice field volunteers to be ready to work at 5, so I imagine sometime near there maybe...
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Forum: General Forum
14-03-2016, 14:27
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Replies: 59
Views: 10,516
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Forum: General Forum
14-03-2016, 14:25
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Replies: 59
Views: 10,516
Re: Hardest Shooting Robots
We are using 2 vex 775s on a dual to one, with what I believe is a 15:1 versaplanetary. It will take about 4-7 seconds after firing to get it fully compressed
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Forum: General Forum
12-03-2016, 22:32
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Replies: 59
Views: 10,516
Re: Hardest Shooting Robots
What about non-wheeled shooters like punchers? My team, 1706, is using the kind of spring from a car suspension, taking about 245lbs of force to pull it back completely.
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Forum: Regional Competitions
09-03-2016, 13:38
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,181
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Forum: Extra Discussion
25-02-2016, 09:58
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,105
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Forum: Technical Discussion
16-02-2016, 14:24
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Replies: 34
Views: 3,939
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Forum: Robot Showcase
12-02-2016, 20:17
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Replies: 26
Views: 5,655
Re: 1706 Shooter Reveal
We do, using rollers, it will suck the ball into the front of the shooter where the ball is housed. This rollers will actually move to get out of the way of the shooter whenever we don't need them...
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Forum: Robot Showcase
10-02-2016, 08:47
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,108
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Forum: Robot Showcase
08-02-2016, 15:02
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Replies: 37
Views: 11,217
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Forum: General Forum
08-02-2016, 10:30
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Replies: 4
Views: 828
Re: Welcome
I think you meant to make your code say "Hello World!"
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Forum: Chairman's Award
04-02-2016, 11:15
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,900
Re: Chairman's Video Submission
Do you show the video to the judges at competition? When we submitted it in 2014, when we went to the competition, we showed it to them on our laptop and then followed that up with anything else we...
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Forum: General Forum
02-02-2016, 08:59
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Replies: 3
Views: 930
Importance of Scouting
It may only be me, but I think this year is probably one of the most important for scouting. You need to know what defenses a team can/cannot cross, so you can select the defenses that will be most...
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Forum: General Forum
02-02-2016, 08:48
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Replies: 41
Views: 6,504
Re: What will separate the good from the great?
I have a feeling that when it comes to final championship matches, we will see a lot of 2 ball autos from the winning alliances. But it's only going to be a small amount of teams that will execute it...
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Forum: Chairman's Award
02-02-2016, 08:36
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,900
Re: Chairman's Video Submission
As I understand it, you only submit the video via CD. We were going to submit it on a flash drive last year and were told that it had to be on a CD
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Forum: General Forum
26-01-2016, 08:53
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,634
Re: Type C Defenses
Your robot has to be completely in the neutral zone and not touching the defense at all. In that time that your off the defense, that gate will most likely close. Now comes into question the...
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Forum: General Forum
26-01-2016, 08:33
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,644
Crossing center line in auto
In autonomous, a robot is not allowed to cross the center line. Does crossing the center line mean that the bumpers cannot be over it, or any part of the robot at all? So could a robot have some sort...
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Forum: General Forum
15-01-2016, 14:48
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Replies: 46
Views: 4,834
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Bring on the competition! And of course the dancing. :D - booton [more] 
