FRC Blogged - FMS White Paper, The New Media Award, and District Dates

[BigJ]

Oh no, now every "WEAR SAFETY GLASSES" sign taped up on a wall in the venue will have "FOLLOW US ON TWITTER/PINTEREST/FACEBOOK/YOUTUBE!" on it

[Gray Adams]

Originally Posted by FMS Whitepaper

Unplugging a joystick in FMS Mode will not result in the robot being disabled. If a joystick becomes
disconnected, simply plugging it back in will not result in it returning to normal operation. The user must press
F1 on the DS to manually rescan the USB interface to redetect the joystick.

Well that would have been good to know...

[bardd]

Did anybody else have problems with downloading the file? Every time I click the link Chrome crashes...

edit: It works fine now.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by bardd

Did anybody else have problems with downloading the file? Every time I click the link Chrome crashes...

Works fine for me.

[rcmolloy]

I do feel like this was heavily influenced by 1114's phone app. The amount of information in that little guy is great for any teams starting up. I wouldn't be surprised if they happened to win it this year on the National level.

[JaneYoung]

I hope that the new award does takes shape quickly so that they provide all the information to the teams and to potential evaluators in a timely fashion. Realizing that it is necessary to stay current with technology's advancements, I think it will place a lot more work on the evaluators and they need to be prepared.

It will be a worthy award but I think I'll put my hand down as an evaluator for the award in the upcoming season. More people who work with and stay current with the technological advancements in these areas will need to step up.

Jane

[rachelholladay]

I'm a little nervous about the 'New Media' Award only due to the uncertainty. On my team we work very hard on our website and social media but I'm unsure what else would fall under a team's 'media presence'? I guess I'd feel reassured with more details but I have a feeling we might not get those in till the 2013 awards manual released much later on.

[Dan 1038]

Originally Posted by rcmolloy

I do feel like this was heavily influenced by 1114's phone app. The amount of information in that little guy is great for any teams starting up. I wouldn't be surprised if they happened to win it this year on the National level.

Ok, I give... What did Karthik and his little team north of the border do that I missed? What phone app?

Edit - found it, very cool!!!

[Walter Deitzler]

Originally Posted by Dan 1038

Ok, I give... What did Karthik and his little team north of the border do that I missed? What phone app?

The SimPhone app.

Its a pretty cool thing.