Forum: General Forum
21-09-2016, 16:15
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Replies: 86
Views: 8,892
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Forum: Technical Discussion
23-01-2016, 08:30
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Replies: 1
Views: 670
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Forum: Rules/Strategy
09-01-2016, 22:27
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,565
Re: Clarification on Rule G43
My interpretation is that if their bumpers are not crossing the plane of the outer works, you can do as much patrolling as you want. However, as soon as their bumpers cross the plane of these outer...
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Forum: General Forum
19-11-2015, 15:14
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Replies: 158
Views: 17,032
Re: Mythical Six Week Build Season
Michael, in the end, once you bag your robot, you can build as many practice robots as you want but all you can do is fine tune the one you have in the bag. By opening up the build season, you can...
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Forum: General Forum
19-11-2015, 11:00
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Replies: 158
Views: 17,032
Re: Mythical Six Week Build Season
A lot of people are saying that eliminating build season will benefit low resource teams. I think the exact opposite would happen.
Right now, even if you do build a practice robot, it's a clone of...
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Forum: General Forum
09-04-2015, 22:24
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Replies: 739
Views: 121,046
Re: Future First Championship News
I haven't read all 500 posts so I apologize if some of my ideas have already been said but to me, FIRST has a few options:
First, they could stick exactly to their current plan. To me, this is the...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
06-04-2015, 13:54
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Replies: 37
Views: 7,133
Re: 2015 Midwest Regional
Thanks to everyone for making this such an amazing event, this is only my second time at the event but the difference in the level of play from last year was incredible. Thank you to 4143 and 2062...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
30-03-2015, 11:13
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Replies: 1
Views: 831
Re: pic: Team 2830 Robot in 5 Days
Some video from our practice on Sunday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv6orfoVpX8
Huge shout out to Wave Robotics for sharing their practice facility with us!
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Forum: Extra Discussion
30-03-2015, 11:09
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Replies: 1
Views: 831
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Forum: General Forum
03-10-2014, 16:43
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Replies: 163
Views: 29,988
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Forum: General Forum
06-06-2014, 15:41
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Replies: 33
Views: 8,110
Re: Frank Answers Fridays - Expanded Championship
So simple solution to the problem with getting people fed in time: stagger the lunch times between divisions. With the current setup, the could have Archimedes and Curie eating from 11:30 to 12:30...
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Forum: General Forum
06-04-2014, 15:54
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Replies: 31
Views: 3,306
Mentoring as a College Freshman
With my team's competition season over, I'm very split about what my involvement in FIRST should be next year. I was involved as a student on my high school team for 6 years, four years as a...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
12-05-2013, 16:47
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Replies: 52
Views: 14,663
Re: 2013 IRI - Applications Open
Question, by submitting an application to attend, would our team be financially committed to the event if we were accepted or would we be able to decline to go if it wasn't within our team's finances?
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Forum: General Forum
01-04-2013, 18:41
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Replies: 32
Views: 7,359
Re: What makes a good pit?
Depending on your team's recourses, you might want to consider building and actual frame for your pit. This should take as little time to setup as possible and should take up as little space in your...
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Forum: General Forum
13-03-2013, 22:12
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,863
Re: Instant Replay Challenge—A Thought Exercise
Here's my thought, have two cameras mounted on opposite ends of the field as shown in this video:
Then you would have a volunteer who would start and stop the cameras every match to create...
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Forum: Programming
20-03-2012, 17:20
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,796
Re: Watchdog and Communication Issue
A few things to check:
- How fast can you ping the robot (in CMD ping 10.xx.yy.2)
- If the pings are averaging more than ~4 msec then you're debugging a problem in networking, if not then you're...
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Forum: Programming
20-03-2012, 17:12
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,547
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Forum: NI LabVIEW
11-03-2012, 15:13
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Replies: 6
Views: 907
Re: Teleop transition issues, Labview
Thanks for the help everyone. We ended up rewriting our code and sending the old code off to NI to have it looked at. We never really had a chance to get the old code working at this regional but...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
08-11-2010, 18:56
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,416
Refereeing
First of all let me start off by saying that I referee soccer myself and know how tough refereeing can be and that I have a lot of respect for referees. So how can we help referees who are obviously...
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Forum: Rumor Mill
01-11-2010, 20:26
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Replies: 560
Views: 87,060
Re: anyone have any ideas about next years game?
i'd like to see something with 3 or fewer scoring objects or a bunch of objects with 1 or 2 valuable ones, this way you could actually keep track of things and get excited for rarer scores, an...
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Forum: General Forum
09-05-2010, 19:50
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Replies: 50
Views: 5,868
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Forum: Team Organization
09-04-2010, 14:02
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Replies: 28
Views: 7,205
Re: Conflict with Mentor
I think something important to remember is that mentors put a lot of time into this and that he probably thought that it was the best thing for him to do. Another thing is that having mentored FLL, I...
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Forum: Programming
07-04-2010, 22:22
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Replies: 350
Views: 41,227
Re: Programmers: I Have A Challenge For You
through my 3 years in FLL, I realize that performing routines like getting a ball, aiming, and shooting is something that's very realistic, so my suggestion, treat teleop like 08's hybrid mode and...
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Forum: Programming
20-03-2010, 12:28
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Replies: 3
Views: 986
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Forum: Programming
20-03-2010, 11:20
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Replies: 3
Views: 986
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