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Life is too short to spend 40 hours a week doing something you are not enthusiastic about. |
Karthik |
KrazyCarl92 |
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It will be really cool if it works, sad if if doesn't. We got our fingers crossed! |
falconmaster |
Ian Curtis |
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I may be a little slow responding, I'm shoveling snow. |
Mark McLeod |
DeformedFedora |
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It is crucial to keep experience and keeping collected under pressure as high points that can't be measured in a test. |
jnelly |
kwam dawg |
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If my shop was snowed in and my unfinished robot was sitting in there, I'd dig it out with a plastic spoon or melt it out with a Bic lighter if I had to. Every hour counts. If there's a will, there's a way to make it happen. |
sanddrag |
Hallry |
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Excuse me while I rant on your comment here a bit. |
Andrew Remmers |
BobbyVanNess |
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there's no time like week 5 to learn programming :D |
dcarr |
Ether |
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Gotta love the blurred robots :cool: |
Steven Donow |
Hallry |
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I personally think mentors should sit behind two-way mirrors and hold a kill switch for all power tools. ;) |
SenorZ |
jwallace15 |
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You worry about your team. Let other people worry about their own teams. |
pfreivald |
Koko Ed |
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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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Time flies when you're freaking out. |
Koko Ed |
MisterG |
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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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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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"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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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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I hate to do say it with these words but...We're all in this together. |
dellagd |
DeformedFedora |
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Magic doesn't count as a support, sorry. Neither does simply constraining in CAD... |
EricH |
Siri |
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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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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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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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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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Attempted to like Andrew's comment and then realized this wasn't Facebook :P |
afowl |
dictionaria13 |
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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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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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Thanks GDC for opening a can of Chuck Norris Brain Hurt |
Garrett.d.w |
DeformedFedora |
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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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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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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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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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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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Has FIRST ever made a game that was easy to do? |
Koko Ed |
Hallry |
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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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Difficult? Yeah.
Extremely difficult? Some parts.
Doable? It's been done. |
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DeformedFedora |
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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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IRI: where egos go to die...uhm..I mean fly! |
Koko Ed |
Hallry |
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FIRST provides evidence that many of us are optimists. |
mrnoble |
pfreivald |
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We need to grow smart not grow fast. |
Andrew Schreiber |
SamC |
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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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FRC: more like the real world than we could ever want. |
efoote868 |
Joe G. |
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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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The dog-gear! Do u even shift bro? |
WileyB-J |
Walter Deitzler |
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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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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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wonder if the April peak for 'frisbee launcher' was from the GDC... |
cbudrecki |
dag0620 |
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You can never be done too early for more testing and practice! |
Donut |
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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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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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 |
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