Chief Delphi - Spotlight List

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Post	Quote	Username	Added By
	1 alliance wins a given tournament but all teams teams have a chance to define, chart, and create their own success.	PayneTrain	Lil' Lavery
	Looks like I'm late, but in the grand tradition of Chief Delphi, I'll butt in and beat the dead horse anyway!	PayneTrain	Collin Fultz
	I hope there are people in this world who love you too much to let you mentor while you are in college	PayneTrain	cadandcookies
	>wears zebra pants >calls people weird	PayneTrain	frcguy
	Your primary job is not to build the most technically advanced robot, but build the best possible team.	PayneTrain	Karibou
	I like this thread because it means I don't have to leave my house to find something to complain about!	PayneTrain	Brian Maher
	This is not an engineering design challenge, this is a project management and common sense challenge with engineering elements. Don't go out of your way to screw yourself.	PayneTrain	Billfred
	you know your team has respect from teachers when classes start waving projects during build season saying you get full credit if the robot ships.	Peck	billbo911
	Think Tolerant.	petek	dlavery
	If people really want to see "better" refereeing, they should see what they can do to help FIRST make better.	petek	Jay Trzaskos
	It's rather simple: you start with a block of solid and remove material until you just have the robot left. Kind of like making a sandcastle. Only harder.	petek	dlavery
	I bet a lot of us (mentors and students) got into this line of work first because we wondered how things work, and stayed in it because we thought "I can make that work better". Thus starts a life-long battle between perfection and time. So far, time is ahead.	petek	Jessica Boucher
	Better is the enemy of good enough.	petek	RogerR
	Gotta love those free-range robots! Yum!	petek	StephLee
	If you are playing foozball and your ball bounces back out of the goal, do you expect the table's manufacturer to fix it? No - you groan and keep playing! Nothing's different here. Like Dave said, it's part of the challenge of playing the game.	petek	Billfred
	For me, FIRST is inspiration with a positive feedback loop - it just keeps getting better. I wonder where it will go from here...	petek	Billfred
	I have postulated a theory that it is due to a resonance between gravity waves and the color purple.	petek	Rohith Surampudi
	So I guess this is just another case of someone reinventing the leg?	petek	Richard Wallace
	I say: Chutes & Ladders in FRC 2008!	petek	Rohith Surampudi
	I can't claim to be an expert in the stess analysis field - I just play one on TV, er CD, er - okay, so call me a poser!	petek	Billfred
	Now, almost a day later, no one has begun interpreting, dissecting, attaching synonyms, re-interpreting or otherwise mangling Dave's wise words in an effort to find the hidden key to the game. I smell a conspiracy!	petek	Billfred
	Seriously! I expect to follow what I understand to be the intent of (allow teams more time to work with their control systems) and just look out for anyone trying to bring in greater than half a robot. Or a kitchen sink.	petek	Billfred
	So does this mean we can use the FP as bumpers? :D	Peter Matteson	CmptrGk
	Does this mean it's too late to ask for a flux capacitor?	Peter Matteson	Alex Burman
	Tom didn't need the t-shirt to tell us [that he is a NERD] :D	Peter Matteson	Jessica Boucher
	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
	The theory is we'd lose a paper list but we haven't lost a student yet.	Peter Matteson	Karibou
	You do use CAD to prototype, Cardboard Aided Design.	Peter Matteson	nathan_hui
	Don't trust everything you read on Chief Delphi.	Peter Matteson	DeformedFedora
	I trust in Martus.	Petey	JohnBoucher
	Aha I just noticed you're from my team. --Petey	Petey	lukevanoort
	p.s. It's 10:20 PM. Santa hasn't come yet, but Dave Lavery and the GDC brought me a headache for Christmas!	Petey	Alex Burman
	Football has been a school institution for over 100 years--we can't expect FIRST to show the same potential in a 10th of that.	Petey	Billfred
	Listen, my team lost in the finals to that alliance, and I've never suffered a more entertaining arse-kicking. Case closed.	Petey	whytheheckme
	Mastering simple skills can be a complex challenge.	Petey	Kyle
	Sometimes students ask me if MIT wants students who are well-rounded. I usually say I don't care as much if you're well-rounded or pointy, what I care about is evaluating the space enclosed by the shape.	Petey	Whippet
	Build a robot that isn't 119.999999 lbs	Peyton Yeung	Kimmeh
	When your team becomes ubiquitous with the phrase "Always a bridesmaid, never the bride"	Peyton Yeung	Cothron Theiss
	The worst that happens is we try our best and lose. And there's no shame in that.	pfreivald	cziggy343
	So the bar is set insanely high. Probably unachievably high for some of us. But what a shame it would be to lower it.	pfreivald	Taylor
	Ask two different FIRSTers for an opinion, get three different answers!	pfreivald	Molten
	I'm about to brain myself on a wall in frustration!	pfreivald	vigkvagkv2
	The toughest regional that matters is the one you're in!	pfreivald	IndySam
	Given the time Banebots has already cost us, what's a little snow?	pfreivald	548swimmer
	It is impossible to be grumpy about anything when eating biscotti made by one's beautiful wife, drinking tea sweetened by one's own honey, warmed by a wood stove, and with a dog asleep on one's foot. Simply impossible.	pfreivald	Grim Tuesday
	There used to be no withholding allowance!	pfreivald	Jherbie53
	But as with all things: we shall see.	pfreivald	Tetraman
	Health. Family. School. FIRST. Any other order is a mistake.	pfreivald	Billfred
	I don't care if my team wins. I care if they try their hardest to win.	pfreivald	Karthik
	I don't care if my team wins. I care if they try their hardest to win.	pfreivald	Kaushal.K

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