Forum: General Forum
16-02-2014, 01:49
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Replies: 3
Views: 916
Re: FRC and Lean Manufacturing
I'd have to agree on both points. However, going through the process of actually starting it, it's interesting how people start to get into it and make it their own. Out of all the process changes...
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Forum: General Forum
15-02-2014, 16:45
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Replies: 3
Views: 916
FRC and Lean Manufacturing
As the build season is coming to an end, I wanted to ask something that I've been mulling over a bit recently. Are there any teams here that have adopted any principles of lean manufacturing into how...
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Forum: Rules/Strategy
15-02-2014, 16:32
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,686
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Forum: Chit-Chat
28-08-2013, 01:30
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,287
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Forum: Chit-Chat
04-02-2013, 22:42
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Replies: 0
Views: 345
3D Printed Prosthetic Hand
I realize everyone's in the heat of build by now, and everything's really getting down to the wire on time, but I wanted to share this story, just to help us keep perspective on why STEM is important...
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Forum: Programming
01-08-2012, 03:00
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Replies: 16
Views: 4,650
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Forum: Programming
30-07-2012, 19:50
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Replies: 16
Views: 4,650
Replacing duplicates in a randomly generated array
Hello all! I've been working on a small C program to help me study. The basic idea is that I can randomly generate a problem set from a given range of questions in a textbook to a size I choose, and...
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Forum: CAD
07-06-2012, 04:11
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,524
Re: Cad Softwares
In my personal experience, Inventor is probably the easiest of the four programs you've listed, with SolidWorks being a little more difficult (this could just be because Inventor was taught in...
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Forum: General Forum
27-04-2012, 23:22
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Replies: 15
Views: 4,224
Re: Dean's List?
I know that the girl in the middle wearing yellow is Jasmine Kemble from 2996. Past that, I'm not actually there... :(
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Forum: Java
16-02-2012, 00:42
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,231
Re: 100 threads then robot code gets terminated
I would have to agree here. Granted, I don't have much experience in Java, but my experience with other languages has been that if you have too many simultaneous threads of execution, the program...
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Forum: Programming
01-12-2011, 13:12
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Replies: 0
Views: 672
NXC Program advice
I was wondering if I could get a little advice regarding this program I'm writing. I'm not too worried about it working or compiling or anything like that, but more if there's anything I can do to...
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Forum: Team Organization
24-05-2011, 20:39
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,610
Re: Dualistic Team
My team also takes a somewhat dualistic approach, namely with the difference that while we do split into a business side and a technical side, members are on a subgroup on each side. For instance,...
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Forum: Chit-Chat
23-05-2011, 12:22
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Replies: 17
Views: 2,381
Re: XKCD
It's actually possible to do by hand using what's called a delta-wye conversion, but I remember that configuration of resistors taking a half hour or so to simplify without calculations just to prove...
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Forum: Career
12-05-2011, 14:57
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,203
Re: What to study
My initial plan before posting this thread had actually included a graduate degree, most likely getting a bachelors in engineering followed by graduate work in physiology and neuroscience. This might...
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Forum: Career
12-05-2011, 14:47
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,203
Re: What to study
Thank you both for the quick and helpful replies. I had forgotten about biomed, and the only other similar major I could think of was biotech, which as far as I can tell is quite different from what...
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Forum: Career
12-05-2011, 13:36
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,203
What to study
So now that I'm about to enter college, I'm not entirely sure what exactly I should study considering what I want to go into. I ultimately want to design robotic prosthetics, and figure that I'll...
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Forum: FRC Control System
01-05-2011, 12:38
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Replies: 33
Views: 8,045
Re: cRIO FRC2
I just wanted to correct myself here, as I did go and talk to an NI rep on Saturday after I posted this just to get it straight from the horses mouth. The differences we'll for those who don't want...
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Forum: General Forum
01-05-2011, 11:41
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Replies: 0
Views: 647
Viewer army
So I was talking with a friend of mine last night and he suggested that we organize a submission to G4tv's Attack of the Show Viewer Army. It would basically be a 5-10 minute news bit about the...
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Forum: FRC Control System
30-04-2011, 00:51
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Replies: 33
Views: 8,045
Re: cRIO FRC2
By my understanding it's the same microcontroller with fewer ports and more memory. That extra storage will probably be the only real performance boost you see
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Forum: Championship Event
27-04-2011, 00:04
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,078
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Forum: Regional Competitions
18-04-2011, 21:50
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Replies: 37
Views: 4,867
Re: How far does your team drive?
About an hour long carpool to Denver. This year we took a charter bus to KC, which was about 12 hours, and I want to say it was along the lines of 18 hours when we took a charter out to Atlanta in 09
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Forum: Control System
23-03-2011, 23:15
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,593
Re: Custom Buttons for drivers?
You'll most likely want to look at using the Cypress board. It has a number of digital inputs that would be perfect for what you're doing here. I'm not so sure on how to program it, as I'm not a...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
24-02-2011, 01:04
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Replies: 33
Views: 2,553
Re: Steel on a FRC Robot
One of the axles on our claw mechanism is currently made of steel, mostly because the aluminum rod that was in there before kept bending under load. Otherwise, it's aluminum and a wooden board
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Forum: Website Design/Showcase
22-02-2011, 17:59
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Replies: 4
Views: 568
Re: Suckerfish issues
Alright, thank you. I'm going to see what I can do here, now that I have a better place to start. I appreciate the help
EDIT: After a bit of playing with it, I did finally get the menu to move over...
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Forum: Website Design/Showcase
22-02-2011, 00:45
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Replies: 4
Views: 568
Re: Suckerfish issues
Yes, the issue shows up here (http://team2996.com/node/6), for one, in the about us menu. And I'll try messing with them a bit, but I only wrote part of the code here and I'm having a bit of trouble...
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