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It's too late to turn back - the only way is forward. Together - with a plan. |
JaneYoung |
rsisk |
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When a team is composed completely of robot builders and technical people that team cannot exist just like a company cannot exist if it is only made up of engineers. |
Garret |
synth3tk |
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Some of the best team captains I've seen have been from rookie teams. |
Conor Ryan |
Katie_UPS |
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The robot competition is the most obvious, visible, and distilled-media-friendly part of the picture... We shouldn't be surprised that it's all that gets into the news coverage, when that coverage is managed by someone who isn't already well versed in what FIRST is trying to do. |
Alan Anderson |
RoboDesigners |
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Being consistently enthusiastic with a consistent message is not easy to do without sounding like a cult. We could use a reasonably large collection of things to say that restate the mission and vision of FIRST but don't appear to be stock phrases. |
Alan Anderson |
RoboDesigners |
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Screwing up is part of the game. Iterating, testing, and analyzing your failures separates the great from the average. |
Jon Stratis |
Jeff Waegelin |
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And when the President of the United States is playing with LEGOs and getting down on the floor to look inside of robots, then I would have to say "Mission Accomplished". |
OZ_341 |
synth3tk |
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But altering register values via bitwise operations in nested ternary commands is so much fun! |
artdutra04 |
demosthenes2k8 |
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Having the ability, opportunity, and inclination to do manual labor makes you a better engineer. |
MrForbes |
Taylor |
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I have yet to see an error where disabling the watchdog was the correct decision. |
EricVanWyk |
rsisk |
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There is more to our team than my hair, you know. :P |
thefro526 |
rcmolloy |
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last year's tradition is this year's rule change! |
EricH |
Taylor |
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And that's part of the game... The field is never reset! Muhahaha! |
nighterfighter |
synth3tk |
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Pictures are worth a thousand words... cell phone pics are worth 750. |
kramarczyk |
Joe G. |
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Wisdom shared is priceless, isn't it?
And timeless. |
JaneYoung |
IndySam |
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Yes, good job being calm and asking about the validity of a rumor before fanning the flames and assuming the conspiracy must be true. |
Greg McKaskle |
Radical Pi |
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FIRST is all about going past theoretical limits. |
Foster |
BJC |
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The more interesting arguments were around a related subject: whether it was pronounced "Wago tool" or "screwdriver". |
Billfred |
rsisk |
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But before we jump to conclusions, I'll wait for kickoff and the manual. ;) |
BrendanB |
rtfgnow |
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Math is FUN! |
Cynette |
RoboDesigners |
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Mentors build mentors. |
Siri |
Joe G. |
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The world is run by those who show up. |
AdamHeard |
dlavery |
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Some advice I wish I had as a college freshman: If you don't understand it, or are struggling to keep up, ask for help. |
DonRotolo |
RoboDesigners |
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If you ever find yourself thinking that you are the most brilliant person in a situation, you are doing something wrong. |
EricVanWyk |
Carolyn_Grace |
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You all are brilliant people. |
Andy Baker |
DonRotolo |
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BTW don't trust game hint threads started by Greg Needel. |
rtfgnow |
DonRotolo |
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Well, the cake could either be a simple cake Or It is blue, so that obviously means that we are having a water game this year. |
big1boom |
synth3tk |
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Once you have a lathe you'll wonder how you ever got through life without one. |
Wayne TenBrink |
AustinSchuh |
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Sometimes I think all the Game Hint does to us is make us terrible listeners. |
Chris is me |
Jared Russell |
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Starting projects is fun, easy, and exposes you to new things, but finishing them shows true character. |
Greg McKaskle |
Taylor |
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While money can create fancy-looking robots, it does not always create game-winning ideas. |
Karibou |
rsisk |
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A winning robot is the better robot, no matter how it was made or how much it cost. |
Chris is me |
Akash Rastogi |
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(Water on all this would be good too) |
buildmaster5000 |
Karibou |
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I really think we need to keep our pitchforks sheathed and torches unlit until we here more news and get more details. |
IndySam |
Bethie42 |
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It's good to learn from experience. It's better to learn from somebody else's experience. |
Jay TenBrink |
kramarczyk |
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Make sure you THOROUGHLY understand the rules of the game before you actually start designing the robot. |
Koko Ed |
David Brinza |
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Innovating for the sake of innovating, reinventing the wheel is probably the second biggest pitfall you can fall into when designing an FRC robot, if the wheel is already a very optimized, good solution. |
Chris is me |
apalrd |
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Don't be too arrogant as to think that just because you didn't invent it, it is not useful. |
ptan |
Joe Ross |
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One key, esspecialy for newer teams, is to understand that the game rule book and design requirements are requirements, not suggestions. |
Chris Fultz |
IndySam |
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And, just for the record, dlavery is on my mental ignore list from September until January if the thread involves the word "hint" at all. |
Andrew Schreiber |
Bethie42 |
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One of my management professors taught me this: At all times you are holding a bucket in each hand, one full of water, and one full of gasoline. Management is knowing when to throw which bucket. |
Barry Bonzack |
Billfred |
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Well... as ready as we can be 30+ days before build season... We definitely do not have a robot yet though... :) |
pandamonium |
Kimmeh |
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I'm looking forward to January when things will slow down some! |
Foster |
Alan Anderson |
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Competitive games are won by point differentials, not by point potentials. |
JesseK |
Molten |
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Who doesn't love a good Finger Lakes Regional?! |
LeelandS |
GCentola |
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Bring on the competition! And of course the dancing. :D |
booton |
GCentola |
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They already tried that... But here is the thing: it wasn't a bunch of guys in white coats. It was 3 guys: 1 in denim, 1 with a pony-tail, and 1 with a bright colored shirt.... |
FIRSTtm134 |
Karibou |
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Everyone is wrong! |
Chris is me |
EricVanWyk |
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Billfred = genius |
rsisk |
RoboDesigners |
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50% of the time that 330 used mcmaster 2717T51, we went to Einstein. Your mileage may vary. |
Joe Ross |
Chris is me |
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