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You know you've been involved with robotics too long when you see a remote-controlled traffic barrel coming up behind people and honking - and it doens't faze you. |
GaryVoshol |
Qbranch |
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A lot of the time in FIRST it's not what you have when you enter the program, but what you gain from being in it. |
Elgin Clock |
Dan Petrovic |
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Its not how much knowledge you have, its how much you want to learn. |
tennispro9911 |
DonRotolo |
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Joining a FIRST team is the beginning of "smart," not the culmination. |
klrswift |
DonRotolo |
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It is not brains but desire that matters. |
Lancer Robotics |
Koko Ed |
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A dedicated team is a happy team. |
sgreco |
dlavery |
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but yea. people have this perception of robots as like, the terminator.
you don't have to be a super genius to do this stuff. |
christina_omg |
Elgin Clock |
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You can't expect a situation to get better if you don't make an attempt to confront it. |
AndyB |
Travis Hoffman |
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FIRST was the best thing that accidentally happened to me. |
Stephen Kowski |
Elgin Clock |
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Kit wheel? Someone probably has them. N-tooth IFI sprocket? You might get lucky. Part Made By A Local Company When You're Competing 800 Miles Away? Bring three. |
Billfred |
joshsmithers |
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...your mentors are your friends. If you're not sure of something, they probably know the answer to it, and if they don't, they will point you to someone who does. |
Karibou |
kramarczyk |
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At IRI you have 72 of the best teams in the country. It could literally be held in a cornfield in the middle of Indiana and nobody would care, because the competition is simply that good. |
Cory |
Herodotus |
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I guess my point is, let's see how it plays out before we condemn it to failure. |
Chris Hibner |
AndyB |
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Maybe we can start a FIRST team on Mars. |
Karibou |
Arefin Bari |
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FIRST inspired me to become a pain in the patootie or something. :) |
Madison |
dlavery |
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If all else fails - bring cookies in the shape of FIRST shapes. Cookies are always good. |
Eugenia Gabrielov |
Alex Cormier |
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Is it weird we think speed controllers are sexy? |
vivek16 |
joshsmithers |
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"Yes, I'd like to Super Size my speed controller combo and add a jumbo distribution block, please."
"You want fries with that?" |
Travis Hoffman |
Karibou |
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My advice is anytime your intuition tells you something, double check it with physics. |
tennispro9911 |
Billfred |
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... if there is no standard against which you determine success, then you can never fail. |
dlavery |
Steve W |
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Wow, I am beginning to feel like a member of the fabled "vast right-wing conspiracy" :) |
Jim Zondag |
Tristan Lall |
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Sounds more like competition for Kentucky Fried Chicken - "I'll have the 3-piece dinner, a Winglet and two thighs..." |
Dick Linn |
Akash Rastogi |
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Basically, just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you should and being savvy enough doesn't entitle you to being above the law. |
Greg Needel |
Billfred |
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Whoooo, just got my wheels from AM! Sometimes it's cool to live in Indiana. |
IndySam |
joshsmithers |
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Your cat-bell skills are most impressive. |
Andy Baker |
Michelle Celio |
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We can't quite define FIRST according to past standards and traditions, because it is shaping the future and does not conform to today's model of sports. |
JaneYoung |
Alan Anderson |
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Engineering literature?
Is that like jumbo shrimp, military intelligence, or legal brief? You know, an oxymoron? |
Richard Wallace |
rtfgnow |
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Ancient doesn't necessarily mean bad, but ancient things do fall out of use, otherwise I'd be tapping this out in morse code or writing it in Latin. |
Greg McKaskle |
AdamHeard |
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Too bad MI isn't allowed to participate in FTC |
Cory |
dlavery |
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They were designed that way so they would be compatible with the water-based ga.... oops, sorry, we aren't supposed to say anything about that. Never mind. |
dlavery |
whytheheckme |
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The bottom line is, what works best for YOUR team is what the best solution is. |
EricH |
Michelle Celio |
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PS: Please use the default font for postings, it is so much easier to read. |
DonRotolo |
rtfgnow |
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Different approaches to the same problem. Isn't it better to focus on understanding both than to be dogmatic about it? |
Greg McKaskle |
ChrisH |
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My nagging fear is that I'm a programming dinosaur, stuck in a procedural tar pit and doomed to extinction as the dataflow mammals take over. |
Alan Anderson |
AustinSchuh |
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Since the dawn of man, martial artists have sought to master fighting styles that seamlessly blend the attributes of strength, power, quickness, grace, and speed. You've heard them all. The Tiger. The Crane. The Mantis. Now witness.......The Nerd. |
Travis Hoffman |
Akash Rastogi |
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Holy Underwriters Laboratories Industrial Safety Awards Batman! |
AndyB |
Qbranch |
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Both might accomplish the same "function" or "results" (perhaps a lift of some kind), but there are clear differences in simplicity, in cost, in maintainability, extensibility, and several other "ilities" -- which are a staple of engineering evaluation criteria. |
msd |
Herodotus |
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If I had a mul-let
then I'd look like Andy Baker used to
and that would be ba-ad,
really ba-ad. |
JaneYoung |
Joe G. |
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maybe I'm just easily amused. |
JVN |
Billfred |
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I hope that all of our new members are as helpful as the one above. We will be in for an amazing season if that is the case. |
Greg Needel |
AustinSchuh |
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It is a wise tutor/mentor who knows when to ask for help. |
JaneYoung |
Taylor |
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One wouldn't want to keep the red herring in hand, that gets kind of stinky. |
GaryVoshol |
Anna B. |
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Some of your terminology is also a little confusing. Nothing that some massaging can't fix. |
JVN |
joshsmithers |
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A very important thing that I learned is how to think, not what to think. |
Anna B. |
JaneYoung |
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It's a good things we're engineers who regularly squeeze out 'miracles' with a severely limited budget, eh? I think that's an important aspect that we as mentors need to show the students from time to time, and this year is a perfect opportunity. |
JesseK |
EricH |
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When FIRST teams are as numerous and as well supported as basketball teams, we will know that our culture is preparing young people to compete in the 21 st century and we are spending our 2 million minutes wisely. |
N7UJJ |
MrForbes |
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Why not go the safer route? Use the robots to play Magic the Gathering. |
kamocat |
synth3tk |
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Blowing out the transmission on your mini-van while hauling a trailer 700 miles from home is not fun. Trust me on this. |
dlavery |
Jherbie53 |
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Only two letters and one punctuation mark can describe my feelings about this... NNNOOOOOOOOOOO!!! :( |
Qbranch |
EricVanWyk |
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We don't have to reinvent the wheel every year. (We have AndyMark to do that for us.) |
GaryVoshol |
Anna B. |
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