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"As president, I believe that robotics can inspire young people to pursue science and engineering. And I also want to keep an eye on those robots in case they try anything." — Barack Obama |
Ted Weisse |
kmcclary |
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The programmers will kill you if you want that done on the robot!!! |
cbeavers6790 |
The Megan 2207 |
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How are you supposed to conceptualize without a complete grasp of what your trying to do? |
Aren_Hill |
Chris is me |
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That makes it a winning move to, well, win. |
EricH |
rtfgnow |
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Sleep well Chief Delphi, because for the next 6 weeks, sleep is only for the weak. :D |
ttldomination |
biojae |
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Who says engineers can't be poets? |
Wayne TenBrink |
dragonrulr288 |
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Then use Newton's handy-dandy 2nd law (Force = mass*acceleration) to solve... |
Chris Hibner |
kramarczyk |
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Glue it, screw it, bolt it, rivet it, weld it. If the design is flawed it will fail. |
Gdeaver |
EricH |
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Man I hate it when people muddy up our rampant speculation with facts and logic, jeez :D |
rsisk |
Chris is me |
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Waiting for the kick off is like studing the molecular structure of grass while being hit on the head by a frying pan |
infinitydex |
Karibou |
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Students can learn to drive on whatever they give us. Ramps, carpet, grating, HDPE, lexan, diamond plate, regolith, other robots the driver station wall, referees, stairs, Dean, the bar, goals, the scorer's table, you name it, I've watched robots somehow manage to drive on it |
Peter Matteson |
Karibou |
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Engineering is a fabulous background for many careers. |
dtengineering |
EricVanWyk |
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The proper way to advance forward is by bringing the bottom up, not by limiting how high the top can fly. |
artdutra04 |
Vikesrock |
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Too often teams forget that pretty isn't always good. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
EricVanWyk |
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Everyone who has posted on this thread has brought about a lot of different ideas to the plate. Before it was just a simple 1 course meal in my mind. But when you post something on CD with tons of engineers and engineers in the making, your bound to have a feast!! |
gallo26 |
Karibou |
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If your robot can't play at least two matches on one battery, your mechanical design and/or driver strategy needs some rethinking. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
dlavery |
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The animation is just a pretty tool to help outsiders understand the game; the manual is for me, the animation is for my grandmother. |
JVN |
Nin_estarSaerah |
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The Manual is the "requirements document" for your project. |
dlavery |
billbo911 |
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If FIRST makes a field invisible to the audience, I will buy every team a dozen Krispy Kremes. |
Chris is me |
Karibou |
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The whole idea of a robot competition is geared around spectators. Take that away and you have a science fair. |
Chris is me |
Nin_estarSaerah |
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Just a modest request for folks NOT to put 3000-pixel-wide pictures inline in the forum. A link to the big picture works just as well while keeping the text readable. Thanks. |
Rick TYler |
Karibou |
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Then as soon as we get the kit loaded into the back of my truck, we ferociously rip it open screaming "How many CIMs!?" |
sanddrag |
Ian Curtis |
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Mountain Dew and Taco Bell. Nom Nom Nom. |
R.C. |
rsisk |
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Sleep is for the weak |
TEntwistle |
afowl |
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Because it's a fun challenge. Kind of like Sudoku, but with lexan and evil geniuses. |
nathanww |
Nin_estarSaerah |
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Remind me again. Why do we let the GDC hold us captive to these hints year after year? |
jholman |
billbo911 |
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FRC2010 - The flying purses :P |
Bharat Nain |
Karibou |
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The GDC probably took bets on how many posts they could get off of a random CAD render, and bonus points for how many people go insane from thinking about it! :yikes: |
gallo26 |
AlexD744 |
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The GDC is the Grinch because they just stole my Christmas! |
scottmacdonald |
Libby K |
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To ANY Robowrangler students reading this thread:
If any of you ask me about the game hint, at any time, you will be assigned 4 hours of shop cleaning duty during week 1. No exceptions. |
JVN |
Jay Trzaskos |
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I wake up at noon on Christmas Eve, and find tweets announcing a game hint. Looks like I won't be seeing much of my family today... |
Karibou |
Billfred |
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Everyone needs to please stop now before Karthik starts singing. |
dlavery |
Billfred |
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A learning experience. Or something positive like that. |
NorviewsVeteran |
nighterfighter |
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NASA rarely launches another rocket just so the programmers can see if they've fixed a bug. |
Greg McKaskle |
rsisk |
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It looks very simple to build, and I like simplicity. |
Nick Lawrence |
Andy Baker |
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Not only would it be cool but the mental image of Dave's suffering when he writes a message in unintelligible characters makes me grin uncontrollably. |
Andrew Schreiber |
Nick Lawrence |
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There was a manual? |
Taylor |
Gary.C |
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I wonder if the kit motors run counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere? |
Gary Dillard |
Karibou |
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I want to understand the physics. |
Molten |
rtfgnow |
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In the absence of a valid game hint, the natives in CD tend to get restless and resort to this sort of pun-ishment of one another. |
David Brinza |
Billfred |
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For the love of God,please post the hint. We're starting to lose control. |
johnr |
rsisk |
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A pole is usually made of aluminum or steel pipe. You can get these wherever you get metal. :)
As for polls, there's a check box in the "Additional Options" section of the New Thread page that you can click to create said poll. |
Chris is me |
ehochstein |
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My rule of thumb is that any team who's won four World Championships can count their chickens whenever they want. :p |
Karthik |
Beth Sweet |
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I don't really care that the best on Curie may or may not be better than Newton, since we're going to spend the rest of the offseason discussing it no matter how the decision fell. |
Jessica Boucher |
Ian Curtis |
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This may not be Battlebots but it sure isn't Pretty Pretty Princess Bots. |
Andrew Schreiber |
Molten |
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I can't believe it someone is talking about next years game rationally! |
jamie_1930 |
Karibou |
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I do want to remind people: Safety glasses, adult supervision and don't let freshmen touch the robot. ::safety:: |
rtfgnow |
rsisk |
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I have many ideas, every last one of them involves finding something more productive to do with your time. |
Andrew Schreiber |
EricVanWyk |
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What if, each alliance has a pile of AndyMark equipment in front of them. They then have 2:00 minutes to assemble said equipment, and build a working robot that will race to the other side and grab the other alliance's flag. |
Pjohn1959 |
Karibou |
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In any case, a drawing is important. You should never machine anything without having a drawing of some type to work from. |
Big Ideas |
Richard Wallace |
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what fun is it if you haven't ripped out all your hair and beaten your now bald head against the wall for extended periods of time.... - pickle [more] 
