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"The only constant is change" is a hint that probably applies to every season of FIRST. |
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Mr. Pockets |
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Stop making me think so hard! :D |
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IndySam |
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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. |
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ehochstein |
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If FIRST makes a field invisible to the audience, I will buy every team a dozen Krispy Kremes. |
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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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The teams that know how to build good robots are the same teams that know how to build good teams, and they engage the students every step of the way. |
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Siri |
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I'd rather have a target on my back than be invisible to the competition. |
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thefro526 |
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Do I think the bar is too high? I think impossible dreams and lofty goals are a key part of FIRST; the "top" being extremely far away only pushes people farther. |
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Jamie Kalb |
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I'm basically only posting this so that future Shaker Robotics kids will see it and tell themselves "never again"... |
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kjolana1124 |
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Evolution is innovation. |
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548swimmer |
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I for one think this kind of robot "love" is absolutely inappropriate for children and both teams should have been condemned for such graphic displays. |
Chris is me |
Karibou |
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If we're engineers, I feel we shouldn't be content with the what without the why... |
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rsisk |
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Or use an IFI control system and you won't have to wait 2 minutes to use your bathroom :P |
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IndySam |
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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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A winning robot is the better robot, no matter how it was made or how much it cost. |
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Akash Rastogi |
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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. |
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apalrd |
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Everyone is wrong! |
Chris is me |
EricVanWyk |
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It's your duty in FRC to your teammates and alliance partners to put the most competitive robot possible on the field. |
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Alan Anderson |
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By affiliating yourself with a team, you are representing them at all times, as you are a member and part of that team. |
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apalrd |
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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. :) |
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bam-bam |
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Brainstorming and creativity are great, but you do actually have to build the ideas you come up with sometime. |
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thefro526 |
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Step 1: Get a blue banner.
Step 2: Wave it everywhere until your School Board acknowledges your existence.
We haven't gotten to Step 1 yet, unfortunately. |
Chris is me |
pwnageNick |
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And when I heard the word "Mentor Round" - you had me SOLD. |
Chris is me |
dag0620 |
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I like how we're trying to save weight when we came in at 95 pounds. |
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548swimmer |
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After it took us weeks to machine sideplates for our 8WD, seeing their simple yet effective drivetrain was a huge "forehead slap" moment. |
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jwfoss |
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71% efficiency is best efficiency. ;) |
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Tristan Lall |
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FIRST games are complex and rely on design and intellectual capability much more than the average sport. |
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Hallry |
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A shaft that yielded is just as useless as a shaft that broke. |
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Ninja_Bait |
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Teams are overconfident every year. Honest evaluation of your capabilities with regard to your design strategy is a skill few teams have. |
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EricLeifermann |
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My strongest FIRST memories, and the teams that leave the biggest impact on me, are teams that seem like they have every reason to give up, but never do. |
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CalTran |
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Iteration is a necessary but not sufficient criteria to being a powerhouse team. |
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Gregor |
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Is the bottom slot just to make the whole thing look like a smiley face, or is it functional? |
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Calvin Hartley |
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Great teams with great software have control loops. Clever teams without software have pneumatics. |
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MrForbes |
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The Scouting Award exists. It's called "Championship Winner". |
Chris is me |
Grim Tuesday |
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More later, if anyone's interested and I still have homework to avoid. |
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TheHolyHades1 |
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Mentor-built (adj.): A term describing a robot that is better than your own, and / or a robot with paint on it. |
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Logan Byers |
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Don't fix mechanical problems with software, ever. |
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DeformedFedora |
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It's nice to see how patient people will be on here even with people who are 99.9999% trolling. Something something GP. |
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ctt956 |
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You're here for them, not for you. |
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Taylor |
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2015 never happened |
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Brian Maher |
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Backstabbing your opponents at the last second will not help you win friends and word will get around pretty quick. Your team will be shunned and distrusted for years. People have long memories, and some of us mentors have been playing this game since you kids were playing with blocks. |
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Analysis is a tool. Like any other tool you need to figure out where and when to use it. That's the tricky part. |
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The game objectives are still the same, get boxes into your scoring zone, stack approximately half of them, run for the top of the ramp.
So lets sit down, shut up, and start building robots. |
ChrisH |
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Some things can only be revealed by time. |
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"It doesn't matter what you think happened, what the Ref calls (or doesn't) is what happened. The judgement of the Ref is part of the game, live with it or don't play." |
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FIRST robots are not six week projects. They are never ending projects where the requirements are changed on an annual basis. |
ChrisH |
Billfred |
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Good judgement is the result of Experience. Experience is the result of Poor Judgement. |
ChrisH |
Astronouth7303 |
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Starting from scratch is what makes it hard. |
ChrisH |
Billfred |
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Why do it the hard way if you don't have too? |
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Billfred |
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Keep 'em cool, run it fast! |
ChrisH |
RogerR |
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