Rookie Questions

[1337pcgamer]

This is my team's rookie year with FRC and I have a few questions...

1. Can we use co2 gas for propulsion and if so is there a PSI limit
2. What is the max muzzle velocity? 12 mph?
3. What are the illuminated green screens made from? so we can test our camera....are they just 3 green cold cathode light?
4. Also, which PDF file would provide a GOOD schematic drawing of the arena?
5. How is it organized once the teams are at the competition and at the arena controlling the robot, you know like how many people there at a time and what everyone's job is?

Your help is greatly appreciated!
I may have more questions so bear with me...

[prettyyinpinkk9]

We were a rookie team last year and we ended up 32nd at Nationals, so if you have any questions other than the ones listed here, please e-mail me and I will try to help you the best I can. I know that the max muzzle velocity is 12 m/s. While at the competition, everyone should have designated jobs (i.e. scouters, drivers, mechanical help, human players, etc.). My recommendation would be to have no more people in the pit than necessary...Our team had a major problem with this. Like I said, please feel free to e-mail me with your questions because we were in your situation last year and I know you really need some help!!!

[Dorienne]

1. Nooo!
2. 12 meters/second
3. They are green cathode lights, but look in the manual. I believe they put one in the kit to test with.
4. Look and see. They have tons of them, and they have the measurements on them. Just look at them.
5. Please read the game manual.

Getting your questions answered is what the big thick manual is for....GO READ.

[aaeamdar]

Originally Posted by Dorienne 007

1. Nooo!
2. 12 meters/second
3. They are green cathode lights, but look in the manual. I believe they put one in the kit to test with.
4. Look and see. They have tons of them, and they have the measurements on them. Just look at them.
5. Please read the game manual.

Getting your questions answered is what the big thick manual is for....GO READ.

Some great points, and I am pretty sure all of them are right (it's not that I'm doubting Dorienne 007, I'm doubting myself). Also, please Search Chief Delphi before posting questions (i.e. starting a new thread). If too much repetition happens, the forums will be jumbled. If too much repetition happens, the forums will be jumbled.

The ARENA section is best for finding information about the arena.

[AceOfSpades]

isnt this rookie talk

you should help us a little more and not tell us to post another place, it said rookie talk so i posted , im sorry , but i wanted to ask some questions and i got them answered and thank you, byebye

[aaeamdar]

Originally Posted by AceOfSpades

isnt this rookie talk

you should help us a little more and not tell us to post another place, it said rookie talk so i posted , im sorry , but i wanted to ask some questions and i got them answered and thank you, byebye

Not to keep on with the negative stuff. But a couple things:

Literacy: it's appreciated. In e-mails, in online posts. There is way too much of this: "swete haxors /w dud lol", which noone can understand which also tends to sound a bit immature. Personally, I'm a bit anal about fixing spelling mistakes et cetera as I type and I except that not everyone is that way. However, punctuation, paragraph breaks, these are things that matter.

First of all, you will see by my team number that I'm a rookie too this year =)! There are a couple hundred of us rookie teams, and I imagine that there are a couple hundred rookie posters. Let's keep things civil.

When I talked about starting a new thread, I was referring to the OP (original poster) but it's something to keep in mind for everyone.

I'm glad you got your questions answered.

[Belldandyspaz]

its great you are so interested in first and i would love to help but alot of your questions are answered in the manual. check the first manual for stuff they just updated some schematics for the field. once again thank you for your interest in first. me and everyone else on Team 1073 FORCE would like to give you are warm welcome. please contact me with any other questions and i will be more than happy to help.

i do know that you cannot use co2 gas for propulsion

i hope this helps
im me at rikkufan123 or email me at rikkufan123@aim.com if need be

[1337pcgamer]

Ok Thanks guys, i'll read the manuals and stuff. If anything comes up i'll let someone know

[Dorienne]

Just letting you know, you have to read the manual first. My personal pet peeve is when rookie teams and rookies in general do not read the manuals and search the Q&A System for their answers BEFORE asking us or the Q&A System questions. It really bothers me.

If you have questions, you NEED to check the manuals and/or the Q&A System. The link for the system is located in the manual section on the FIRST website.

[RoboMom]

Q & A is still locked due to technical problems.

[1337pcgamer]

Hey Dorienne 007 why don't you go speak whale and get off my back, ok. Like I have time to read the manual when our team is still getting funds to even send 3 people to the competition....
But I will read them, the reason why I asked those questions is so I could get them answered without having to look in the manuals. No one else had a problem helping me, but I guess in your case you seemed to think it was more of a problem.

Again, thanks to eveyone who HELPED me not discouraged me.

[1337pcgamer]

007 i'm sorry about the last post. I am currently very frustrated with this whole thing and don't know if my team will even be able to have more than the base kit.

[1robotmom]

Originally Posted by 1337pcgamer

007 i'm sorry about the last post. I am currently very frustrated with this whole thing and don't know if my team will even be able to have more than the base kit.

RELAX, all! This contest is to learn and TO HAVE FUN! Remember, ALL the teams were rookies once! You'll get there! You've made a good start by finding and getting on chiefdelphi.com. Just roam the FIRST website too and you will get lots of help. The manual and lots of other helps are online there! Team MOE has a great website too!

[KTorak]

Just for future reference, I recommend searching the forum before you post a new topic for anything becuase 90% of the time, someone has already started a similar thread that contains loads of information.

Good luck and I hope to see you do well this year.

[Bill Moore]

Originally Posted by 1robotmom

RELAX, all! This contest is to learn and TO HAVE FUN! Remember, ALL the teams were rookies once! You'll get there! You've made a good start by finding and getting on chiefdelphi.com. Just roam the FIRST website too and you will get lots of help. The manual and lots of other helps are online there! Team MOE has a great website too!

Thank you for the compliment!
Rookies may find MOEmentum FYI (First-Year Infobase) to be helpful. This is a weekly plan to assist new teams (or any team) as they go through the season. There are many other items that need to be coordinated besides building the robot, and the FYI helps identify them.
MOEmentum FYI will be updated weekly as the season progresses, so you will see a divider between this years updates and last years. Reading ahead to see what your team will be working through is encouraged.

And to 1337pcgamer and AceOfSpades -- Keep asking the questions; there's always some folks here who are willing to help answer them.