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You know, one year we need to stake out the AndyMark building for several weeks before Kickoff so we can see what the game pieces will be. Hidden webcam? :rolleyes: |
DonRotolo |
Hallry |
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It kicked off today, and we already have 10 pages of posts!?!?! |
ShotgunNinja |
dubiousSwain |
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Boy you guys try to make my job harder every year. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
Hallry |
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To my surprise, purple painted air tanks were illegal last year.
AB |
Andy Baker |
EricLeifermann |
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What Delphi says doesn't matter. What the official Q&A says matters. |
Tetraman |
Karibou |
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You do need help. Don't reject offers of assistance from veterans. There are more things you don't know than you think there are. |
Alan Anderson |
vhcook |
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Just because something has never been done, doesn't mean it's impossible. See: everything ever. |
Taylor |
Grim Tuesday |
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Let this be a hint to the hardware teams. Deliver that robot early and give the software and driving team time with the robot. IR3 has proven it can be done. |
Doug Leppard |
Travis Hoffman |
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So next time you speculate, label it as such and not as established fact. Please. Bad information is worse than no information. |
DonRotolo |
Hallry |
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So kudos for asking advice... you've got plenty of good advice so far in this column... but honestly, if Orville and Wilbur Wright had taken good advice they would have packed up and gone back to their bicycle shop. |
dtengineering |
nathan_hui |
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Every freshman or first time FIRST student comes onto the team with little to no experience. The whole point is that you will get to learn how to do some new things. |
engunneer |
Hallry |
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You don't have to build a robot to be on a robot team. This isn't about the robot, it's about learning. |
engunneer |
Hallry |
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Between reading the Manual, Q&A, Team Updates, the Blog, and Chief Delphi, you can be one of the most valuable members of any team. |
Gregor |
Karibou |
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You can never be done too early for more testing and practice! |
Donut |
Hallry |
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wonder if the April peak for 'frisbee launcher' was from the GDC... |
cbudrecki |
dag0620 |
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Goodness, YES. Please get a copy of the rules. It explains a lot, and if your robot does NOT follow the rules, you will not be allowed to compete. Really, it is very important. |
DonRotolo |
Tristan Lall |
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Consider that the 12V from your robot isn't any different from the 12V from your car's cigarette lighter. (Err... sorry... that's "power port" these days, thank goodness.) |
dtengineering |
Billfred |
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The dog-gear! Do u even shift bro? |
WileyB-J |
Walter Deitzler |
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30 point hang is brutal. Those who say it is easy are not thinking it through or are way smarter than the rest of us ... |
Paul Copioli |
Ian Curtis |
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FRC: more like the real world than we could ever want. |
efoote868 |
Joe G. |
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FIRST is hard. It's supposed to be. We can't keep giving people a check and expecting them to succeed. We need to stop this model. It takes a village to raise a child but it takes a community to build a FIRST team. |
Andrew Schreiber |
joelg236 |
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We need to grow smart not grow fast. |
Andrew Schreiber |
SamC |
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FIRST provides evidence that many of us are optimists. |
mrnoble |
pfreivald |
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IRI: where egos go to die...uhm..I mean fly! |
Koko Ed |
Hallry |
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"We just fundraised $5000 for registration, and you spent it all on balloons?" |
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rsisk |
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Difficult? Yeah.
Extremely difficult? Some parts.
Doable? It's been done. |
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DeformedFedora |
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The robots that rise to the top will not be the ones that do everything poorly, but the ones that are breathtaking at one thing. Be that robot. |
DampRobot |
Koko Ed |
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Has FIRST ever made a game that was easy to do? |
Koko Ed |
Hallry |
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If you refuse to come to any compromises with your Ultimate Ascent robot design, you risk compromising everything (including your sanity). |
Jared Russell |
Holtzman |
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Keep your chin up, your safety glasses on, and don't let the magic smoke out of the electrical components and you'll do just fine :) |
rsegrest |
DeformedFedora |
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This game is absolutely *NOT* too difficult, but many teams will make it too difficult by biting off more than they can chew. |
pfreivald |
IKE |
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I personally need all the limbs and eyeballs I currently have, and I assume other feel the same way. |
bfk |
dtengineering |
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Weird. On a forum where people talk about robots, we have a robot trying to talk to people. |
dellagd |
Whippet |
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Thanks GDC for opening a can of Chuck Norris Brain Hurt |
Garrett.d.w |
DeformedFedora |
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My goal as a mentor is to make myself irrelevant. Is that possible? Probably not. But this is one place I am willing to aim stupidly high. |
Ian Curtis |
KrazyCarl92 |
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It's a hunch, based on engineering intuition; there are too many hard-to-quantify variables to do any accurate calculations. Looking for some experimental corroboration or refutation. |
Ether |
Ian Curtis |
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Attempted to like Andrew's comment and then realized this wasn't Facebook :P |
afowl |
dictionaria13 |
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On the other hand, if the tires were marked "NOT FOR FRISBEE SHOOTER USE" I'd be worried. |
Ken Streeter |
Whippet |
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if your robot weighs 1-1/2 tons, you have bigger problems then the legality of that jack... |
ekapalka |
Micah Chetrit |
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Our robot will use sensors to collect information about its environment, then discard that information and drive into a wall. |
Jared Russell |
Hallry |
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We've done that autonomous. After several years of refinement we decided to skip the information collection and just drive into the wall at the earliest opportunity. |
Greg Young |
joshsmithers |
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Magic doesn't count as a support, sorry. Neither does simply constraining in CAD... |
EricH |
Siri |
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I hate to do say it with these words but...We're all in this together. |
dellagd |
DeformedFedora |
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If that many teams could do it successfully every match this year I will eat my robot. |
Jay O'Donnell |
DeformedFedora |
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"The devil" isn't in the details... The devil is having a loud house party with lots of other devils and demons in the details. And laughing, and laughing... |
pfreivald |
IndySam |
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Maybe we should have some safety training before and during build instead of just having flyers at our pit. Hm... |
JaneYoung |
Billfred |
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This has to be the hardest, most complicated game I've ever seen the GDC develop - that's what makes it so much fun! |
SteveGPage |
Kims Robot |
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Time flies when you're freaking out. |
Koko Ed |
MisterG |
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It's a skid-steer vehicle, so it depends on the phase of the moon and yesterday's lottery numbers. |
Ether |
Calvin Hartley |
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You worry about your team. Let other people worry about their own teams. |
pfreivald |
Koko Ed |
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