Forum: General Forum
07-11-2016, 19:37
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Re: 2017 Chairman's Hall of Fame Predictions
Having won a few times and submitted a couple more, I have had a few similar experiences. That's one of the reasons I was asking.
But how Chairman's is judged and decided is a completely different...
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Forum: General Forum
03-11-2016, 18:04
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Replies: 54
Views: 7,804
Re: 2017 Chairman's Hall of Fame Predictions
I know you may not have meant to, but this implies that Chairman's at other events is not chosen based on the quality of their submission.
I know at regionals and districts the judges may know the...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
10-08-2016, 09:25
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,494
Re: pic: Its twins - prototype drives
Just curious, what sort of efficiency loss do you get with using the right angle gears? Is the loss in efficiency/power worth the savings in space?
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Forum: Technical Discussion
11-06-2016, 10:54
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,069
Re: In search of arm examples
I would start here:
https://frcdesigns.com/designs-2011/
It has a lot of very good robot designs from that year. If you want to check out any of them in action, you can look for videos on the blue...
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Forum: General Forum
24-11-2013, 19:31
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Replies: 49
Views: 6,495
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Forum: Robot Showcase
17-09-2013, 23:27
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Replies: 24
Views: 5,714
Re: Best shots
Haha, we were quite proud that not once during the practices did we hit him. :yikes:
And we were probably more surprised that he came to us with the idea for the shot, not the other way around....
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Forum: Robot Showcase
18-08-2013, 21:52
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Replies: 24
Views: 5,714
Re: Best shots
I might be a little bit biased, but I would like to put my vote in for 2468's shot at the bottle on Ray Almgren's head at NI week during the RoboRio reveal....
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Forum: Technical Discussion
12-08-2013, 22:52
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,741
Re: Frisbee shooter surface?
This is the best picture I could find
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=503278946385875&set=pb.158661770847596.-2207520000.1376361999.&type=3&theater
You can see the black foam on the inside...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
12-08-2013, 22:08
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,741
Re: Frisbee shooter surface?
Wow, thank you so much for the praise we really "appreciate" it. But my best advise would be to make one shooter multiple times with many of the different materials listed (there are some great...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
11-08-2013, 18:40
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,741
Re: Frisbee shooter surface?
We thought about friction tape, but in the end we made the shooter rails a little bit bigger and farther away than we knew we would need to add thin strips of Lexan as spacers. On top of those we put...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
11-08-2013, 18:26
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,741
Re: Frisbee shooter surface?
We used a shooter made completely from HDPE. This includes the deck (or floor), the rails to provide the semicircular shape, the hopper to hold the disks (that part also included a pickle bucked),...
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Forum: General Forum
08-08-2013, 15:48
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Replies: 207
Views: 40,046
Re: NI Week Athena Announcement and Q&A Panel
Haha, as one of the students on stage operating the robot, I can tell you that it wasn't actually the radio's fault. Our computer opened up some bizarre program that I didn't know how to close so...
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Forum: Scouting
19-04-2013, 19:26
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,978
Re: Scouting at the championship
You really should scout in regardless of whether you think you can be an alliance captain or not. If you happen to get lucky and become an alliance captain without scouting, you're in pretty big...
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Forum: General Forum
04-04-2013, 15:08
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Replies: 23
Views: 3,769
Re: What does your team do during the off-season?
While our team does a bunch of stuff during the offseason, one of the biggest is our involvement with BEST robotics. We used to have all of our FRC students compete in BESt in the fall. Now we have...
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Forum: Chairman's Award
02-04-2013, 18:17
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Replies: 44
Views: 10,905
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Forum: Robot Showcase
15-04-2012, 14:55
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,254
2468-Robot (Triple Balance)
http://i.imgur.com/tUGOb.jpg
This picture shows teams 2468, 456, and 1421 triple balancing on the practice course at the Dallas West regional.
This balance was done (several times) following the...
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