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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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Having the ability, opportunity, and inclination to do manual labor makes you a better engineer. |
MrForbes |
Taylor |
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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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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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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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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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Some of the best team captains I've seen have been from rookie teams. |
Conor Ryan |
Katie_UPS |
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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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It's too late to turn back - the only way is forward. Together - with a plan. |
JaneYoung |
rsisk |
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It is NOT possible to fail within FIRST.
It IS possible to fail within the competition (whatever your criteria for failure may be). |
JVN |
Jeff Waegelin |
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When it comes to FIRST (you've all heard the cliche) -- we're all winners.
When it comes to the competition: to the engineering design challenge, we're NOT all winners -- some solutions are better than others. |
JVN |
Jeff Waegelin |
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Striving to build the "best robot" is a fine goal -- don't hate on it. |
JVN |
NickE |
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We're not disappointed if we don't achieve excellence, so long as we did everything we could in our pursuit of it. |
JVN |
Siri |
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KISS does not mean that your goals and capabilities are "simple", it means that the way you achieve them is simple. |
jspatz1 |
Grim Tuesday |
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We need to train teams from the very beginning to become self-sustaining...
so we can offer a full experience to FIRST students... |
Bob Steele |
JaneYoung |
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probably another ingenious game hint planted by Dave months before anyone even thinks about a game hint! |
skimoose |
synth3tk |
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Math, it's great stuff |
AdamHeard |
Taylor |
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Perfection of a system comes not when you can add nothing more but instead when you can remove nothing. |
Andrew Schreiber |
Siri |
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"He who seeks originality will often find novelty, but not great design." |
IKE |
rsisk |
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The Pet Rock was very original, but not necessarily a great thing. |
IKE |
rsisk |
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The trick to designing is to identify the problem before finding a solution. |
BJC |
Taylor |
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Are they Robots? Of course they aren't robots; they are obviously and unambiguously robots. |
gblake |
RoboDesigners |
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Yay for teaching how to fish! |
RoboMom |
rsisk |
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I would have bought a bigger box of popcorn and sat up higher in the stands. In the middle. |
JaneYoung |
Nick Lawrence |
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Go figure that by teaching you end up learning a lot through the process. ;) |
Josh Fox |
kstl99 |
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School cannot teach everything you need to know so they teach you how to learn. |
kstl99 |
Taylor |
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It is very difficult for a large, inexperienced, impatient group to create order from chaos. |
Wayne TenBrink |
JaneYoung |
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We just need to make engineering an interesting everyday thing, as visible as art exhibits or concerts or football games. |
Alan Anderson |
Taylor |
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If I can do it, it's not art. |
Ether |
EricVanWyk |
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For our next exercise, we should define Beauty and Truth. :) |
Taylor |
rtfgnow |
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Be yourself and do what you love. |
Greg Marra |
Akash Rastogi |
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Inspect every connection after every match. Use your eyes, ears and nose. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
JohnBoucher |
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Not all current students are math dummies. Not all 1960's students were math geniuses either. |
Clem1640 |
Ian Curtis |
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Age should not be a speed bump to creativity. |
Greg Needel |
dlavery |
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They had me at "chocolate-covered bacon".... |
Foster |
dlavery |
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"which came first, the hamster or the toad?" |
dlavery |
IndySam |
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By "resources" do you mean money (sponsor or school), school support or permission, build facilities, or mentors? All of these require different solutions. |
Carol |
JaneYoung |
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Someday I will have to learn how tagging and reps work. I already know how search and brain farts work. |
kstl99 |
rsisk |
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Theory is a nice place, I'd like to go there one day. |
JamesCH95 |
BJC |
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It's never been about the robots. But the robots make an interesting misdirection that we all use. So its ALL about the robots. :rolleyes: |
Foster |
kramarczyk |
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Or use an IFI control system and you won't have to wait 2 minutes to use your bathroom :P |
Chris is me |
IndySam |
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What really drove us was not our achievements, but our failures. |
BEEKMAN |
JaneYoung |
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I predict the champion drive teams at each event of the 2011 season will consist of vertebrates. |
Taylor |
Karibou |
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I predict the champion drive teams at each event of the 2011 season will consist of vertebrates. |
Taylor |
afowl |
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pit visitor: "Why'd you use #35 chain?"
team member "less links to CAD...." |
Aren_Hill |
Taylor |
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There is something completely respectful and amazing to see FIRST teams who have members go through 4 years of the program without winning a single competition or even a single award. Those are the teams that are looked at by others and respected for what they do. |
fuzzwaz |
Cyberphil |
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“FIRST is your experience and you cannot let anyone else hinder what you can achieve.” |
fuzzwaz |
Chris is me |
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Not joining as a freshman was the worst mistake I have ever made. |
ProgramLuke |
Taylor |
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When Andy Baker holds an iPhone 4 in his left hand, the signal [i]increases[/i]. |
Billfred |
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