How do You Chiefdelphi?

[RiceRobotica]

I use it to look up stuff, of course, but I always use it to waste time during study hall, being that it's the only useful website I can get on, despite the school's websense.

[Alex Pelan]

For a bunch of things
-Fun (CD = my home page)
-Procrastination (in fact, thats what i'm doing right now)
-Keeping up with the first news
-Learning about all this stuff that I don't know.

[Venkatesh]

Hello,

I come here for amusement, to provide knowledge of electronics, and mostly to get answers. It is like a large, evolving encyclopedia, with useless and useful topics. Sort of like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, except only applying to FIRST.

[Beth Sweet]

Reasons I go on Cheif Delphi:
1. To feel like I have a social life.
2. To get necessary information.
3. To make new buddies!
4. Lots of other reasons, but above all else, because FIRST rocks!

[Jeremiah Johnson]

I Chiefdelphi to obtain valuable information that is not accessible through any other site/book. I use it to relate robotics with the "real world"... if there is one.

[Melissa Nute]

To meet new people.
To connect with other teams.
To have a social life.
To entertain. (why else would i type my username with my elbows)
And to discuss robotics tech when the chance is needed. (I'm the only active member from me team)

[JoeXIII'007]

Basically this is where I just want to chat and see what is going on in the FIRST world. Any new ideas, what are other teams doing, whose got what type of robot, etc. That is what I come for.

I joined in about February of this year because a team mate showed me this. Its awesome that such a massive forum was made by one team, ChiefDelphi. It makes me wonder, who else had such an idea but never got around to doing it?

None the less, I ChiefDelphi for many reasons.

[MissInformation]

For entertainment purposes only... oops... wait a minute... that's why I use my Magic 8 Ball... I think ChiefDelphi is one of the best (if not the best) resources for FIRST. I use it for ideas for team spirit, Chairman's Award, outreach, fundraising... and it never fails to amaze me that so many people are so willing to share their ideas. I also use it to learn. When I used to do store openings and training, I was asked what I would do when someone didn't understand what I was teaching them. I said I would find another way to explain it. There are so many wonderful "teachers" on ChiefDelphi, and so many views on any subject, that even I, a well-known disliker of science and math, can learn how something works.

And it's fun! Face it, ChiefDelphi is just good company.

Heidi

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and I bet you all thought I would say I use it to make fun of Dave

[Ryan F.]

1. Info....i don't think there is a better resource out there than ChiefDelphi. Recently I worked on a hovering robot, and had some programming/control system problems. I posted a thread, and within minutes, people had solved my problems.

2. Stay Updated....you'll learn things on ChiefDelphi much sooner than any other source.

3. It's good to be able to participate in discussion with intelligent people holding simular goals/ideas as you.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by SpaceOsc

I just wanted to see how people inthe FIRST community used chiefdelphi

I use[d] it to learn Perl, PHP, and to better my HTML, CSS and other web skills. I probably wouldn't know half of the stuff I use on a daily basis (work, chiefdelphi, listen-to, etc) if it weren't for this site.

[JAH]

I use ChiefDelphi as a source for more robotics info. There are a lot of informative threads and there are also lots of interesting people. It's a great place to just browse around and find interesting things. I started reading ChiefDelphi before I was officially on Cyber Blue 234 and it just made my interest even stronger.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by JohnBoucher

I’ve found that only a few members from any team actually are active users of Chief Delphi. That really is a shame since there is so much information here.

The beauty of Chief Delphi and what I get the most from it is the community. We all have our own teams that we are involved with, but there is so much more to it. FIRST is so much more than 6 weeks of build and some competition, but it’s awareness.

Everyone is changed by the FIRST experience. We all work toward a common goal. Think about each team being a city, and FIRST as the country that we all belong to. It would be a shame if we kept our city to ourselves. We have ideas to share. Chief Delphi allows us to do that. It binds us as a community.

There are even fewer members on my team who participate on this forum.
Not everyone is a messageboard user I suppose.

[aaronbr28040]

For fun, to goof off........and more importantly to get info and help. Without ChiefDelphi where would we go for help at 2AM in the morning when something goes wrong?
-Aaron

[Joshua May]

1) Procrastination
2) Bordome

I found out that one of my teammates is on here but he hasn't made any posts yet, I'll make him starting tomorrow.

[Bridgette]

I use chiefdelphi to find out information and read opinions of other people in FIRST. I also read threads when I'm procrastinating on my homework, like I'm doing right now.