Forum: General Forum
10-02-2011, 11:26
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Views: 1,362
Re: driving straight
In addition to calibrating the Jags and checking the motors, you may also want to check your joystick calibration. One joystick could be set to put out a higher PWM value then the other, and thus one...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
22-01-2011, 23:37
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,324
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Forum: General Forum
22-01-2011, 23:30
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Replies: 4,808
Views: 1,188,549
Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season
"And now, it's time to learn the three rules of robotics: One, be safe. Two, have fun. Three, don't touch the mentors' food! :ahh: ".
"You're from New York, you can't complain about how cold it is!"
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Forum: General Forum
13-01-2011, 19:56
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Replies: 4
Views: 759
Re: Buying FTC KOP
FIRST Choice has a list of stuff you can get for free. Your team only has to pay for shipping.
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Forum: General Forum
13-01-2011, 12:03
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Replies: 9
Views: 4,488
Re: HELP Elevator/Lift!!!
Here's one that our team made in 2008. The video is not excellent quality, however.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMIwLd9GLh0
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Forum: General Forum
10-01-2011, 18:03
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Replies: 4,808
Views: 1,188,549
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Forum: Regional Competitions
20-03-2010, 22:18
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Replies: 74
Views: 11,514
Re: 2010 NASA/VCU regional!!!
Yes, I was awestruck by the quality of play in the finals and semi-finals. 2402 mostlikely would have been up there with you all but we got another 44 point penalty for pretty much the same reason as...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
19-03-2010, 23:39
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Replies: 74
Views: 11,514
Re: 2010 NASA/VCU regional!!!
I was coaching for 2402 when the 39 point penalty in question occured (in fact, the human player was one of ours). Our human player had a tenancy to want to jam the balls into the trident and he says...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
09-01-2010, 22:50
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Replies: 12
Views: 3,691
Re: The Physics of a Kick
From my rough calculations, the kicker would need to operate at 110 ft/s :eek: and would require 188.4 lbs of force, this could be done with a 1.7 foot long cylinder at 60 psi and would shoot the...
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Forum: Rumor Mill
21-11-2009, 20:26
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,777
Oh Dear, I Have an Idea
So I was pondering the news for the past week, and I have come across an idea that would definitely fit the GDC's mold of going outside the box to mess with our minds:
Think, what event was recently...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
22-03-2009, 13:38
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Replies: 79
Views: 9,095
Re: 2009 NASA/VCU Regional
Good luck to 1086, 88, and 346, we'll be rooting for you in Atlanta!
It's too bad that we finished where we did (and we didn't get insulted too badly), but it was still a great time.
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Forum: General Forum
21-03-2009, 21:31
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Replies: 4,808
Views: 1,188,549
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Forum: Robot Showcase
18-03-2009, 21:21
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Replies: 1
Views: 765
2402 Chairman's Award video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hunUw0sRBfY
We originally planned to use Back in Black with this, but Youtube took the audio out, and we had to remake the video. The band is called "Rocky's Revival"...
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Forum: Robot Showcase
07-03-2009, 18:44
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Replies: 14
Views: 55,048
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Forum: Extra Discussion
20-02-2009, 12:35
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,507
pic: 2009_2
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Forum: Robot Showcase
19-02-2009, 21:31
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Replies: 0
Views: 530
JMB's 2009 project
Here are some (bad) pics of our 2009 bot, these were taken within one week of ship date. Seeing as we haven't put up our myrad of photos and videos of this year, I thought these would be good to show...
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Forum: Robot Showcase
19-02-2009, 20:48
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,228
Re: Sparky X - Team 384
Nice! I guess at some point we're going to have to reveal our secret project, Good luck at VCU.
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Forum: General Forum
17-02-2009, 20:13
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Replies: 4,808
Views: 1,188,549
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Forum: General Forum
09-02-2009, 22:02
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Replies: 4,808
Views: 1,188,549
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Forum: Technical Discussion
01-02-2009, 16:57
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Replies: 23
Views: 3,096
Re: How to Power a Rotating Turret
We're just using a KoP window motor connected to a piece of plywood with the shaft bolted to a piece of 80/20 mounted on the lazy susan mount mountedto the plywood, the cannon (made of flue pipe)...
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Forum: Programming
06-01-2009, 20:11
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,512
Re: Failed Benchtop test
We set ours up w/ victors and it works. You just need to know a bit more than the directions state when you do wifi.
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Forum: Rumor Mill
01-01-2009, 23:03
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Replies: 142
Views: 21,888
Re: Windows 7
How did those who have beta copies get them? I have an MS account (and in fact, a beta of Server 2008). But I cannot find a download page.
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Forum: General Forum
29-12-2008, 18:06
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Replies: 159
Views: 17,269
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Forum: FRC Control System
28-12-2008, 23:17
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,154
Re: cRIO and PowerPC stuff
Thanks for adding that, I basically just pulled stuff from the websites that I found. Those were probably written for a 601,603/603e, or 604. Whereas the cRIO is (hopefully) using something more...
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Forum: FRC Control System
28-12-2008, 18:48
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,154
cRIO and PowerPC stuff
I sent this out to the programmers and electricians on my team, thought this might be of some help to the community:
Those who attended the workshops know that the cRIO that we will be using is...
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