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If you think that teams would never bypass the rules or do something unsafe (intentional or unintentional), I suggest you spend a weekend as an inspector. Every bad scenario that you can think of, we have seen. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
Ian Curtis |
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Guys,
Can we agree that "we used it in the past" is not a response.
Thanks. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
Brian C |
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There is nothing that compares to the smell of burning flesh, especially when it is your own. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
Invictus3593 |
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A charged battery beats a dead battery any day. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
techtiger1 |
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Al's Murphy's law corollary...If it can go wrong, it will on Einstein |
Al Skierkiewicz |
plnyyanks |
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To go a step further, to be "steam punk", electrics would need to be powered from a steam turbine operated dynamo but electric wiring would still be required to follow all rules as they would apply. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
Billfred |
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The trick is to train the rest of the team to blame electrical instead. |
Al3+ |
Rick TYler |
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I feel that the only friends I have ever had are people I know through FIRST. Being on a team gave me the sense of belonging that I thought I didn't even need. FIRST has given me a great life that I never thought I would have. |
Alaina |
Ashley Christine |
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A well-designed shifting transmission, controlled by an experienced driver (or a clever bit of software), is an advantage. |
Alan Anderson |
Andy Baker |
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I have always gotten the answers I need. They're just not always the answers I want... |
Alan Anderson |
Matt Krass |
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I'm a programmer by training and inclination, so my mechanical ideas are sometimes rather, um, loosely constrained by physical reality. |
Alan Anderson |
JVN |
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The solution to that "problem" is obvious: practice driving. |
Alan Anderson |
Billfred |
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I haven't seen it yet, but I have complete confidence in him, because he is Andy Baker. |
Alan Anderson |
Josh Hambright |
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Questions are rarely stupid. |
Alan Anderson |
Billfred |
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Please don't confuse energetic enthusaism with acting obnoxious. |
Alan Anderson |
Billfred |
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This is a high-energy sporting event, not a piano recital. :) |
Alan Anderson |
Cory |
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We also indirectly benefit from those rookie teams having well-built and working drivebases. It helps raise the level of performance across the board, making for a better competitive environment.
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Alan Anderson |
Karthik |
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If I understand what you're saying, you don't understand very far.
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Alan Anderson |
Cory |
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Stop it with the "break the rules, just don't let anyone know" already! |
Alan Anderson |
Billfred |
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Yes, a good driver can effectively be the element that closes the loop, but only when there is a driver at the controls. |
Alan Anderson |
Billfred |
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Stupid rules are not meant to be broken; they're meant to be changed. Unless and until they are changed, breaking them is wrong. |
Alan Anderson |
Billfred |
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Yes, I have lost it! |
Alan Anderson |
Kyle Love |
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The scent of a smoking Globe motor is familiar to many. |
Alan Anderson |
tdlrali |
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Safety is a practice, not a number. |
Alan Anderson |
Richard Wallace |
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A challenge to those of you grumbling about the refereeing this year: Be a referee next year. |
Alan Anderson |
Richard Wallace |
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One of the cultural concepts that has emerged from the teams participating in FIRST is that ideas are worth sharing. |
Alan Anderson |
JaneYoung |
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The urge to compete tends to drive teams to hold the ideas close during the competition season, but the urge to contribute means they get publicized afterwards. |
Alan Anderson |
JaneYoung |
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The way things generally work in cases like this is simple: if you know something, you can't say it. So keep in mind that if someone does say something, it usually means they don't know. |
Alan Anderson |
Jaine Perotti |
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Actually, I think the standard Klingon warning label ought to be sufficient: 'yIQIpQo' (don't be stupid) |
Alan Anderson |
Andy Baker |
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Pneumatic components always give me gas... |
Alan Anderson |
lukevanoort |
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Our robot-in-progress got set on the scale yesterday, It came to about 115 pounds. Then I walked up and took out the battery, and everyone relaxed some. |
Alan Anderson |
Jherbie53 |
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I got to talk with Mr. Flowers briefly last year. I told him that I had wanted to be part of FIRST since about 1980. It was nearly a quarter-century later when my son entered high school and I joined the TechnoKats as a mentor. |
Alan Anderson |
114Klutz |
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Being professional means doing things right. Being gracious means doing the right thing. They complement each other perfectly. But I think we should remember to use GP as a guide for our own behavior, not as a yardstick to measure others' shortcomings. |
Alan Anderson |
Paul Copioli |
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I firmly believe that it's within your power to aspire instead of lament. |
Alan Anderson |
Billfred |
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Never underestimate the ability of a team of high school students and engineers to break expensive things. |
Alan Anderson |
Billfred |
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We fail to present a coherent picture of what we are if we aren't vigilant about our self-image. |
Alan Anderson |
Joe Matt |
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My nagging fear is that I'm a programming dinosaur, stuck in a procedural tar pit and doomed to extinction as the dataflow mammals take over. |
Alan Anderson |
AustinSchuh |
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"But from a real life standpoint, that looks like something the evil villains in a superhero movie would use to get around in"
Reading the phrases "real life" and "evil villains in a superhero movie" in the same sentence makes me giggle. |
Alan Anderson |
hallk |
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Gracious Professionalism is a compass, not a set of calipers. It should be used to guide what you do rather than to measure it. |
Alan Anderson |
Collin Fultz |
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Stupid rules are still rules. They're not meant to be broken, they're meant to be changed. |
Alan Anderson |
Stuart |
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Prepare to be surprised, amazed, awed, and inspired. |
Alan Anderson |
StevenB |
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A stack of hearing aid batteries can also read 13v, but they won't run a robot. |
Alan Anderson |
Jimmy Cao |
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The closest thing to "Senior Mentor" we have is "Team Grandma". :) |
Alan Anderson |
JaneYoung |
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A constant awareness of safety is a plague I would welcome. |
Alan Anderson |
Siri |
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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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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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Dave doesn't predict the future. He creates it. |
Alan Anderson |
RoboDesigners |
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, however... |
Alan Anderson |
synth3tk |
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We are reluctant to deprive you of the experience of learning how to do your own research. |
Alan Anderson |
EricH |
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