2005 Manual

[Stephen Kowski]

I believe that Mabuchi will be supplying an alternative to the Bosch Drill motors. The people I talked with when I bought some of the old Bosch drill motors told me FIRST was having a third party company make them a replacement for the Bosch drill motor. I suspect that these Mabuchi motors are what he was talking about.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

does anyone have pictures of the old mabuchi motors, or can someone describe their size and such.

[Max Lobovsky]

Originally Posted by Swampdude

FIRST has supplied us with them before:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=15967

I thought the old Mabuchi motors were the old FP motors. FP is on the new list alongside this new Mabuchi motor.

[Bill Gold]

Originally Posted by Max Lobovsky

The old Mabuchi motors were the old FP motors. That's what that thread is talking about. FP is on the new list alongside this new Mabuchi motor.

There was an additional Mabuchi given to us in 2002. "Mabuchi" is just the brand, we'll have to wait for someone like Paul Copioli to get us the specs since, historically, FIRST has been slow with that.

[ahecht]

IIRC, the Mabuchi motor is 2002 was a tiny servo-sized motor.

[JohnBoucher]

Was it described last year as "The Arena"?

[ahecht]

Hmm, so RadioShack is sponsoring the Controls award, and there are new Regional Safety and Championship Rookie Inspiration awards. Also, it looks like teams can resubmit 2004 Regional Woodie Flowers award winners for consideration for the national award in addition to their 2005 entries.

Finally, the Chairman's award is now being submitted online, is limited to 10000 characters (instead of four pages), can only include 4 photographs, and must be under 1MB in size. Instead of being freeform, it looks like it will just be a web form. I guess FIRST is trying to eliminate the graphic design and layout aspect, and wants to just focus on writing ability.

[MikeWherley]

Originally Posted by ahecht

Hmm, so RadioShack is sponsoring the Controls award, and there are new Regional Safety and Championship Rookie Inspiration awards. Also, it looks like teams can resubmit 2004 Regional Woodie Flowers award winners for consideration for the national award in addition to their 2005 entries.

Finally, the Chairman's award is now being submitted online, is limited to 10000 characters (instead of four pages), can only include 4 photographs, and must be under 1MB in size. Instead of being freeform, it looks like it will just be a web form. I guess FIRST is trying to eliminate the graphic design and layout aspect, and wants to just focus on writing ability.

Or maybe they just want to focus on content as opposed to looks ...

[Steven Carmain]

Originally Posted by 9.2.3.2
Students enter their candidate at the Woodie Flowers Award entry web page by entering team and candidate information, reference information, and a six hundred-word (600) essay. Teams may also add up to six (6) pictures, totaling no more than 1.0 Mb. of memory. This essay should be a team effort and will stand alone as the team’s entry to award their candidate the deserved recognition.

That's not a lot of info to judge on...

600 characters=This is a test. (with one space after), 37.5 times
The Awards, page 5 (no headers or footers) = 2924 characters

Also, how do you get pictures of the person without telling them???

[Max Lobovsky]

It says words, not characters...

[Jeffrafa]

Originally Posted by Steven Carmain

Also, how do you get pictures of the person without telling them???

Every year our team gets pictures of every member of the team and all mentors, either while they are working or more commonly just a "mug shot". We post these on our website along with short description about the person.

You could easily do something like this to get a picture of your mentor. If your team dosen't do something like this for your website you could just tell him you need it for such a purpose, but don't mention the woodie flowers award. Also there's just simply cutting him out of a team picture in photoshop or get a picture when he's presenting or explaining something.

Its not all that hard to get a picture of someone without them knowing you need it for something like the woodie flowers award.

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by 663.keith

*oh and I also have 3 more gmail accounts left, fell free to pm me for those as well*

so gmail accounts are in demand eh? i've got 70-something free invites, but most of them are my dad's (ah, they joys of having a father who works for google) i myself have 6 or so, so if anyone wants them, pm me

[team222badbrad]

Yes you are correct, FIRST did allow us to download them a few days before kickoff. If FIRST does this again this year, it will probably be up in the next few days. The FIRST website is very slow today, maybe they are uploading it now

I guess I was right!