Forum: General Forum
06-10-2016, 12:39
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Replies: 288
Views: 6,656
Re: Registration 2017
I finally got registered at 9:42 local time. Fortunately, our first event is not wildly popular, or I would have been mad.
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Forum: General Forum
06-10-2016, 12:06
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Replies: 288
Views: 6,656
Re: Registration 2017
I see either "This is a custom view" or "This is a custom view" followed by "Error" when logging in.
I think they need to learn how to do load testing.
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Forum: General Forum
22-09-2016, 13:16
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Replies: 288
Views: 6,656
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Forum: General Forum
22-09-2016, 13:08
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Replies: 288
Views: 6,656
Re: Registration 2017
This is why I have a cushy part time job... to be able to waste an hour griping about a failed registration system on social media.
But seriously, I assume you can pay a testing company to slam...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
31-05-2016, 11:33
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,750
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Forum: General Forum
27-01-2016, 15:28
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,005
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Forum: General Forum
05-01-2016, 17:19
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,536
Re: Stress, burnout, and stepping back
I'm taking a year off FRC because I noticed that I haven't gotten any new products out the door in my home business since I started mentoring FRC four years ago.
I'm still mentoring our little Vex...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
27-05-2015, 14:20
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,574
US Digital wants to do export control on us
I just received a weird letter from U.S. Digital, the maker of the encoders supplied in previous years KOP. We bought some encoder cables from them last year.
They want us to certify that we are in...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
27-05-2015, 14:14
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Replies: 12
Views: 3,012
Re: 2015 Season Technical Photos
We just did a photo shoot of our robot and its parts last night for the Behind the Design book. It should be pretty good this year! We used laser-cut plywood. Unusual, yet amazingly effective.
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Forum: General Forum
26-05-2015, 01:34
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,998
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Forum: General Forum
08-05-2015, 16:46
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Replies: 13
Views: 3,543
How the Recycle Rush game changed my life
These days, whenever I see a grey plastic tote, I check out the long edge to see if our robot could pick it up.
What do you look for in grey plastic totes nowadays?
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Forum: Technical Discussion
01-05-2015, 00:03
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Replies: 32
Views: 4,913
Re: Building Out a Workshop
For power tools, please consider that you have to live with the darn things for years, so don't skimp on quality. Don't buy Harbor Freight. It will drive you batty. Check that the drill press doesn't...
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Forum: General Forum
20-04-2015, 12:40
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Replies: 25
Views: 6,413
Re: can grabbers fastest?
I expect the can grabbing gizmos to be stunning in their performance levels, if what we've been playing with is any indication.
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Forum: Championship Event
16-04-2015, 10:30
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Replies: 21
Views: 7,960
Re: Carver Division 2015
Advice? Enjoy yourselves. Don't expect to win anything else. The championships is the reward for the hard work you did up until now.
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Forum: General Forum
07-04-2015, 01:22
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,226
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Forum: General Forum
06-04-2015, 01:12
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Replies: 40
Views: 5,200
Re: Driving
I really enjoyed driving my '58 Chevy wagon to yesterday's regional. MrForbes helps me with it.
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Forum: General Forum
05-04-2015, 15:56
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Replies: 147
Views: 21,119
Re: A Recycle Rush Reflection
I remember starting a thread like this a couple weeks ago. I can't say my opinion of the game has changed much since winning a regional.
Some of our team members just drove to Phoenix yesterday...
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Forum: General Forum
02-04-2015, 00:19
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Replies: 37
Views: 5,466
Re: Getting Mentors out of Comfort zone
We made a big change this year to go with a wood robot. It was made possible because our build space has a laser cutter. What made the change happen was that a few people on the team decided it was...
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Forum: General Forum
01-04-2015, 12:15
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Replies: 32
Views: 5,967
Re: Too Tall To Ship
RTFM!
The robot crating instructions specifically say that you're allowed to unbag your robot for the purpose of disassembling it to fit in a crate, and that you may use two bags to hold the pieces....
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Forum: General Forum
28-03-2015, 23:39
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Replies: 15
Views: 3,900
Re: Steve Wozniak Judged Our Robot
He turns up at FIRST regionals now and then. A really down-to-earth guy. He used to show up in Phoenix, but not since we formed a team that goes there four years ago.
I hope you asked him about his...
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Forum: General Forum
25-03-2015, 00:09
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,550
Re: Rookie All-Star Award in 2015
The Bit Buckets are a fourth-year team that won RAS in 2012. We were so inspired by attending the championships that year, that we vowed to come back to St. Louis under our own steam as soon as we...
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Forum: General Forum
25-03-2015, 00:00
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Replies: 199
Views: 31,410
Re: This year's "game" is a job, not a game
That would be me, the other Mr. Forbes. Jim's my twin brother.
We were not quite the underdog, we just looked that way since our drive team had to learn how to play the game during the qual...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
24-03-2015, 19:25
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,384
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Forum: General Forum
24-03-2015, 17:54
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Replies: 54
Views: 12,754
Re: Unique Designs
Team 4183 the Bit Buckets used the laser cutter at our build space, Xerocraft, to make a wooden robot that mines the landfill, and makes and caps stacks of four.
The laser cutter bed is only...
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Forum: General Forum
24-03-2015, 00:54
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,559
The surreal experience of winning a regional
Our team, the Bit Buckets, has been doing FRC for four years. This is the first year that we won a regional event. I don't mean that we were 2nd pick of the winning alliance - I mean that we were...
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First thing I do after the kickoff broadcast is start typing in my credit card number... - sanddrag [more] 
