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Without compromise, engineering would be boring. |
Mike Betts |
Billfred |
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Just as you and your team will make hard decisions as you struggle to build a robot, FIRST has had to make hard decisions concerning maximizing safety while making the number of rules as small as possible. |
Mike Betts |
Billfred |
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I just turned 51 and I'm still not sure what I want to be when I grow up! |
Mike Betts |
Tom Bottiglieri |
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I love the smell of burnt motors in the morning! |
Mike Betts |
Andy Baker |
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As Alice once said: "Curiouser and curiouser!" |
Mike Betts |
Bharat Nain |
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Engineering is all about trade offs. You can design yor system to do A, B or C easily. Combining A abd C or A and B or B and C requires some effort. Combining A, B and C should be near impossible. |
Mike Betts |
russell |
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Designing for failure tends to encourage failure. Worrying about failure analysis during the competition can become a self fulfilling prophesy. Break your pots in the fall and learn how to keep them from breaking. |
Mike Betts |
Billfred |
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Patents are an issue of law which, alas, has little to do with engineering or common sense. |
Mike Betts |
dlavery |
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Real engineers don't need sleep... Just ask our bosses! |
Mike Betts |
David Guzman |
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Proof: Remove the motor from it's mechanical house of bondage and it will operate just fine |
Mike Betts |
steveg |
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That is definitely a question for the GDC. My guess would be no (but I am frequently wrong). |
Mike Betts |
Collin Fultz |
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When we learn physics, we almost always "ignore friction". The real world never does... |
Mike Betts |
Jimmy Cao |
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Above all, have fun and, if you need help, ask for it... Your inspectors will be glad to help or try to arrange for another team to help you. This should not be a traumatic experience! |
Mike Betts |
Billfred |
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Bottom line: I would suggest that you walk a mile in our shoes and volunteer to be an inspector at your next event... |
Mike Betts |
Matt Krass |
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Figuring out how to do something is half of the fun. |
Mike |
Billfred |
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Basically: engineering is fun. |
Mike |
Jaine Perotti |
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Programmers fuel: pure, unadulterated caffeinated beverages. |
Mike |
Venkatesh |
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So why are we trying to go to Mars? It's because it's bigger, better, and bolder. Doing what nearly no other team can do, and defying all those who say it can't be done. That reward is a lot more than 9 points. |
Mike |
Marc P. |
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It's like FIRST saying "Well it was too hard, so we give up. Lets give the kids something easier to do." How is that supposed to inspire kids? |
Mike |
jgannon |
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Give me a week, and a lot of caffeine and I could have one made. Problem is the lack of a week and caffeine. |
Mike |
Billfred |
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Don't limit programming to just hitting keys, there is a lot of logic/design involved. |
Mike |
Billfred |
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I didn't feel like reading this whole thread, which, as I understand, is talking about people not wanting to read long threads. |
Mike |
Adam Richards |
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Keep arrogant, belittling and misspelled bragging off these boards. |
Mike |
Billfred |
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Quote from my mentor: "Keep things as complex as necessary, and not a bit more." |
Mike |
Elgin Clock |
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Well, air conditioners when pointed inside the house make it cooler. So I figure if EVERYONE turns their air conditioners on full blast and just point them out the window, we should more or less get rid of this "warming" nonsense. |
Mike |
Billfred |
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I love the smell of a upcoming FRC build season in the morning. The sleepless night; the drills; welding; cutting of metal. I wait all yr. for this. |
midway78224 |
RoboDesigners |
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Sleep? What this you talk about. I never can sleep the night before kick-off. |
midway78224 |
Hallry |
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I love pushing buttons!!! |
Michelle Celio |
Billfred |
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It's 9:00 Do you know where your bott is? |
Michelle Celio |
DarMagi |
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So now that the Championship is over, how long 'till next kick off? ;) :p |
Michelle Celio |
Adam Richards |
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I survived the Great CD Spamming of 2006. |
Michelle Celio |
Adam Richards |
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So you wanna be a playa
But your gear boxes aint fly?
You gotta shift us up
To get that high speed drive.... |
Michelle Celio |
Marc P. |
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You're never too cool for a giant conga line around an arena. |
Michelle 236 |
afowl |
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Underwater basket weaving -- it's a water game, and we can go from "STEM" to "STEAM." |
michael.saxon |
joecloud |
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It may not happen overnight, but in time if you keep focused and keep working hard, it will become a reality. |
Michael Sperber |
Pavan Dave |
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Oh... and congratulations FIRST, for launching the biggest shinny object of distraction just days before FRC kick-off. ;) |
Michael Sperber |
Koko Ed |
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The energy source of the future is brain power. |
Michael R. Lee |
Billfred |
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...next years game will hopefully make my head hurt, this years did. |
Michael Leicht |
Mike Ciance |
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i have a feeling that the field with be the same as it was last year just to save some money. but what is inside the the field will be diferent. |
Michael Leicht |
miketwalker |
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Mike Wade was the Fall offseason guy. |
Michael Leicht |
JaneYoung |
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HAH! What else am I supposed to do on a weekend? Sleep? |
Michael Hill |
Billfred |
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Easy, we use Magic. Your team wasn't given that in the kit? |
Michael Hill |
Arkorobotics |
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Back in MY day, we had full metal to metal contact. Not any of this wussy bumper stuff! |
Michael Hill |
JohnBoucher |
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Please no reboots. I'm so sick of reboots. Hollywood has ruined them for me. I don't even reboot my computer anymore. |
Michael Hill |
Taylor |
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Almost as if there's...co-opertition? |
Michael Hill |
Brandon_L |
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Anything worth analyzing is worth over-analyzing. And anything worth over-analyzing is worth hyper-analyzing. Ready, go! |
Michael Hill |
ctt956 |
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27 ft/s? They must really "Rush" around the field |
Michael Corsetto |
Blue_Mist |
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You're not crazy. Eleven is the new seven. |
Michael Corsetto |
~Cory~ |
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What isn't fun about watching a robot hang tubes? I love watching my team do it! |
Michael Corsetto |
rsisk |
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The goal isn't to keep the "bad" kids out. The goal is to take the "bad" out of kids, thereby transforming OUR culture. |
Michael Corsetto |
IndySam |
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