29-04-2006, 21:18
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I live for the details.
 FRC #3620 (Average Joes) Team Role: Engineer
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Rookie Year: 1996
Location: Southwestern Michigan
Posts: 3,667
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Re: DISTANT shooter BOTS
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Originally Posted by edboy
about the 12 m/s rule
we (1261) tried to radar our shooter with a gun, but to no success
since the balls dont have reflective surfaces, the gun couldn't pick them up
we never figured out if we were over, and wanted to observe gracious professionalism, but couldn't get a radar check, either at regionals or nationals
one person suggested that maybe FIRST figured out they couldn't clock it, at least easily, and decided to just let it go unless there was an appeal
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Enforcement of the muzzle velocity rule varied somewhat from event to event. An earlier post explains how we handled it in St. Louis.
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 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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