Forum: General Forum
01-11-2016, 06:05
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,261
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Forum: General Forum
02-06-2016, 17:14
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Replies: 32
Views: 3,594
Re: Is Magnesium ok?
Cory accurately identifies the hazard of working with magnesium. It's not so much with the robot in competition.
My camera body is cast magnesium, due to the weight benefits provided.
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Forum: General Forum
22-05-2016, 00:49
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Replies: 37
Views: 3,821
Re: What Percent of Teams Use CAD?
FRC 1640 uses CAD (SolidWorks). I believe most teams use CAD.
With the growth of 3-D Printing and CNC/CAM, it is almost indispensable.
From a real world standpoint, it is a tremendously powerful...
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Forum: General Forum
20-05-2016, 23:58
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,136
Re: Best Cake in FRC?!
Here is our contribution to the CD Cake Quest.
http://wiki.team1640.com/index.php?title=File:Stronghold_Cake.jpg
Made by our drive team!
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Forum: Robotics Education and Curriculum
20-05-2016, 17:53
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,484
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Forum: General Forum
15-05-2016, 18:42
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,275
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Forum: General Forum
14-05-2016, 18:10
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Replies: 22
Views: 3,498
Re: Ftc World Championship
I was not suggesting that there is no reason for valid complaints. I think there are. I think that these are more associated with the relative difficulties in qualifying for FTC championships than...
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Forum: General Forum
14-05-2016, 15:05
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Replies: 22
Views: 3,498
Re: Ftc World Championship
I agree that FIRST Championship is FRC-centric. Look at the opportunity for a team to participate: it's about 20% for FRC versus about 3% for FTC. For FLL, it's significantly less than 1%. This...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
14-05-2016, 09:58
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Replies: 28
Views: 3,494
Re: Swerve vs Wheeled Tank
We are a team that uses swerve as our default drive-train (all of our robots from 2010 through 2015 were swerve drive) and we love swerve drive.
That said, it's not suitable for all situations (we...
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Forum: General Forum
11-04-2016, 15:09
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Replies: 62
Views: 6,651
Re: Did you make a second robot? [POLL]
We've built two robots since 2011. They are built in parallel (at the same time). The practice robot is not painted and generally has limited light-weighting machining. Other than this, we try to...
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Forum: General Forum
11-04-2016, 07:23
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,313
Re: Finding space
We were able to find vacant warehouse space for three years. We worked with a local commercial realtor to identify potential properties and then approached the owners.
A few important points:
1)...
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Forum: General Forum
08-04-2016, 10:47
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Replies: 121
Views: 18,660
Re: 20 point auto club
Team 1640 (Sab-BOT-age) scored 20 point autonomous during the majority of its qualifier and elimination matches at the MAR District Westtown Event.
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Forum: General Forum
08-04-2016, 10:43
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Replies: 55
Views: 6,474
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Forum: Team Organization
10-11-2015, 15:44
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,683
Re: Why do team's fold?
Sab-BOT-age went through a couple of crises which came very close to shutting us down.
In 2008 we lost our Teacher / head mentor in the middle of build season. One of the other mentors (me)...
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Forum: Programming
16-10-2015, 19:23
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Replies: 21
Views: 5,142
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Forum: General Forum
09-10-2015, 13:46
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Replies: 39
Views: 5,546
Re: Favorite moments from Recycle Rush
For me, it was getting to Archimedes Finals as alliance captain. Alas, no visit to Einstein this year.
Prior to this year, we had been alliance captain during official FRC events exactly twice (in...
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Forum: General Forum
03-10-2015, 06:32
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Replies: 32
Views: 4,248
Re: Where did you get the name for your robot?
We started as a team for the two Downingtown PA High Schools: East and West. So our robot is named DEWBOT for Downingtown East and West roBOT.
We are no longer affiliated with the Downingtown...
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Forum: General Forum
16-08-2015, 09:22
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Replies: 92
Views: 13,839
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Forum: General Forum
15-08-2015, 21:04
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Replies: 31
Views: 7,727
Re: Value in Failure vs. Value in Success
Failure can be a great and valuable learning experience, but this requires a few crucial mindsets and capabilities:
1) Introspection. You must firmly believe that your failure was due to factors...
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Forum: Team Organization
09-08-2015, 08:16
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Replies: 13
Views: 4,156
Re: How to change a team name?
Good call. Citrus Circuits is a great name.
So, changing a team name (nickname in TIMS) is really easy and cost-free. It is simply a team marketing/image issue. With a relatively new team, name...
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Forum: General Forum
04-08-2015, 01:06
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Replies: 13
Views: 4,902
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Forum: General Forum
02-08-2015, 11:26
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Replies: 61
Views: 5,317
Re: What do you listen to as you work?
Alas, nothing.
I love music, but I love it too much. Rock, Jazz, Classical, Folk & World Music are my key weaknesses. But when I listen to music, I really listen. I don't need background noise. ...
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Forum: General Forum
02-08-2015, 11:17
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Replies: 113
Views: 19,646
Re: Drugs and Alcohol - Dirty Little Secrets
Good subject.
We of course have a strict policy prohibiting participation in team activities by anyone intoxicated (whether via alcohol or drugs, student or mentor is not specified) and this is...
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Forum: General Forum
02-08-2015, 08:43
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,262
Re: Swerve Design
Some thoughts.
First, I am not sure what bears the load between the rotating wheel/cage assembly and the static drive/steering assembly. There needs to be a rotating, load bearing (the robot's...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
19-07-2015, 00:43
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Replies: 46
Views: 11,540
Re: IRI 2015 Webcast
Sab-BOT-age's sincerest thanks to teams 118 Robonauts (Captain) and 2826 Wave Robotics for inviting us to join the 3rd alliance at IRI! And a big shout-out to team 67 Heroes of Tomorrow for...
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