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Go to Post Whatever you do, make it idiot-proof. Not because your drivers are idiots, but because the fewer precision maneuvers they have to do, the more awesome driving (and scoring!) they have time to do. Ian Curtis bam-bam
Go to Post The GDC is becoming sane. Zuelu562 dlavery
Go to Post "Programming is 1% talent and 99% not getting distracted by the Internet." FRC4ME RoboDesigners
Go to Post "What we really need to make sure we do is make our robot move." Barngirl425 RoboDesigners
Go to Post Instead of prototyping with plywood and machining metal for the final version, they make their prototypes out of sheet metal and machine the final robot out of wood. :) Chris is me bam-bam
Go to Post If it reads MINUS voltage, the power is reversed (and this is bad). DonRotolo Matt Krass
Go to Post There are times when all of us - myself included - need a virtual *poink* to the back of the head and someone to say "wake up and stop behaving like a three-year-old." dlavery Mark McLeod
Go to Post Remember everyone, during build season, if you mess something up..... In the words of Adam Savage... Failure is always an option! (and so is blowing stuff up) J.Warsoff RoboDesigners
Go to Post Stop whining about something that can be fixed by working harder. artdutra04 Billfred
Go to Post 256:1 gear reductions provide surprisingly little torque once the gears have failed. Kevin Sevcik 548swimmer
Go to Post Celebrate your failures as well as your successes. Taylor RoboDesigners
Go to Post Why subject your robot to a potential sensor failure when you can train a monkey (or a student, if monkeys are lacking) to put the tube at the right height every time? JVN AlexD744
Go to Post If you build offensively, keep defense in mind always for defense will always keep you in mind. Molten jwfoss
Go to Post We were the "oooh, neat, fire!" robot that year. pfreivald Gregor
Go to Post At my age I don't celebrate birthday's anymore. I'd rather hang out with teenagers and build robots and be in complete denial about my aging. Koko Ed skimoose
Go to Post Dangit Jim, we are engineers not politicians. Andrew Schreiber Chris is me
Go to Post Moral of the story: Keep something you can power on gamepieces at all times. Leaving them "to do their own thing" will only lead to heartbreak. Ian Curtis rotolomi
Go to Post So we dont need a brain to run the minibot? TheGuyz Sean Raia
Go to Post One day the code will be written first, and then a robot built around it dag0620 synth3tk
Go to Post As in life, the more restrictive the rules, the more creative the 'best' solution will be. DonRotolo David Brinza
Go to Post “Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs” - Scott Adams 114Klaatu0x72 548swimmer
Go to Post FIRST is here to inspire you, to challenge you. Part of that process is giving you a task too hard, resources too little, people too many, time too short. ebarker Bethie42
Go to Post Ask two different FIRSTers for an opinion, get three different answers! pfreivald Molten
Go to Post The mecanum is like the dress shoe, the treaded wheel is like the athletic shoe. Chris Fultz Ian Curtis
Go to Post ...last year's watchdog had a litter of watchpuppies. EricVanWyk Bethie42
Go to Post and the only thing i see as a disadvantage to those long hours of hard work is a little less time to spend with my girlfriend h1n1is4pigs Karibou
Go to Post I guess true innovation is when you can actually harness physics to do what you want. Heck -- that sounds suspiciously like engineering. JVN Basel A
Go to Post Probably planning on milling the bumpers out of solid pool noodle stock, too. Ever wonder how they drill that hole down the middle of pool noodles? ;) Bill_B 548swimmer
Go to Post You're not on your own, use your team members. They are the most valuable source of ideas that you have. fr05ty27355 Vikesrock
Go to Post I'm all for an aggressive game, but lets not crack each others lexan. Molten 548swimmer
Go to Post Brainstorming and creativity are great, but you do actually have to build the ideas you come up with sometime. Chris is me thefro526
Go to Post Kudos to you IFI, for your continued support of FIRST and its stated ideals Racer26 Rick TYler
Go to Post As it stands your design defies physics (and breaks 1 of Karthik's 2 Golden Rules). JesseK BJC
Go to Post I think the new smoke cost about $ 189 from AndyMark. ebarker Bryan Herbst
Go to Post It keeps your minibot from being destroyed by Dean's chainsaw, which is a big competitive advantage in future matches. Joe Ross Karibou
Go to Post Where's the easy button on this thing... Akash Rastogi Bethie42
Go to Post Result: 44 volts through the DAP-1522. NOT FUN. DtD Zuelu562
Go to Post In Soviet Russia, FTC support you! AdamHeard Leav
Go to Post Everything is possible. Some things are just harder to do than others. vigkvagkv2 DMFrank
Go to Post You can't just leave us hanging! That was SOOO 2010! nighterfighter bam-bam
Go to Post I'm about to brain myself on a wall in frustration! pfreivald vigkvagkv2
Go to Post For me Gracious Professionalism is about helping other teams make their ideas work. We do everything we can to help other teams program, or lend them parts from our pit. On the field we play to win. Alpha Beta SteveGPage
Go to Post I am alive today because I can't hold onto things. Al Skierkiewicz RoboDesigners
Go to Post So yeah, everyone please remember that lathes are one of the most dangerous machine tools you'll encounter. And keep your hand on the chuck key whenever it's in the chuck. If you never let it go till it's out of the chuck, it's stupendously less likely to take flight. Kevin Sevcik Karibou
Go to Post I want to win, but I want to beat my opponent when they are at their best. wilsonmw04 Phoenix Spud
Go to Post For those of you who don't want to read a block of text: Respect the Tools. Andrew Schreiber apalrd
Go to Post You'll want to start with P, add some D to help prevent overshoot, and then add some I to help it get to the correct height if it isn't there from the P and D. AustinSchuh demosthenes2k8
Go to Post they just build excellence and silently wait to deploy their creation on the unsuspecting masses Koko Ed mcb
Go to Post Andymark has everything! nighterfighter NorviewsVeteran
Go to Post Given the time Banebots has already cost us, what's a little snow? pfreivald 548swimmer

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