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So yeah, everyone please remember that lathes are one of the most dangerous machine tools you'll encounter. And keep your hand on the chuck key whenever it's in the chuck. If you never let it go till it's out of the chuck, it's stupendously less likely to take flight. |
Kevin Sevcik |
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This [Coach badge] means no-touchy the controllers. Even to save them from certain doom. |
Kevin Sevcik |
Bethie42 |
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Totally agree on the fact that legal strategies are... legal. |
Kevin Sevcik |
RoboDesigners |
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"The safety log is the log people sit on to think about the unsafe act they've just committed." |
Kevin Sevcik |
CalTran |
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OMFG! Sanity prevails! It's unprecedented! |
Kevin Sevcik |
plnyyanks |
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Clearly they're releasing the game hint on 12/21/12 because they know the world's going to end, and they want to keep FIRSTers happy and distracted until the very end. |
Kevin Sevcik |
daniel_dsouza |
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I suggested it in brainstorming, but then people threw things at me. Apparently there ARE bad ideas in brainstorming. |
Kevin Sevcik |
CalTran |
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This isn't an engineering fair and demonstration, it's FRC. Defense is part of the game. You can't expect a good FRC team to just sit there and get clobbered by a full-court shooter; they're going to engineer a solution to the problem. |
Kevin Sevcik |
nightpool |
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Because nothing says safety like carrying a 150lb robot across a field covered in golf balls. |
Kevin Sevcik |
Alex2614 |
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Some of us should be so lucky to have something go wrong on Einstein. |
Kevin Sevcik |
Whippet |
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I think your robot is lacking in non-threatening, huggable design. |
Kevin Sevcik |
Whippet |
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You can't reprogram physics. |
Kevin Sevcik |
rsisk |
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TL;DR: The robot battery (and your car battery) aren't going to electrocute you unless you stab a positive and negative wire from them into your heart. In which case you have plenty of other problems besides. |
Kevin Sevcik |
MikLast |
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What are you people going to rumor mill about if we ever actually get a water game? |
Kevin Sevcik |
cadandcookies |
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Our robotics lab has been closed for two days, TWO DAYS! :ahh: |
Kevin Selavko |
Hallry |
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71, sponsored by Beatty, was breaking the box apart--not just thinking outside it. |
Kevin Ray |
Calvin Hartley |
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We might just dip the entire bot in a Locktite bath before bagging. |
Kevin Ray |
Jessi Kaestle |
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The difference between a robotics kid and a generic nerd. Both use their calculators for statistical analysis. One keeps it a closely guarded secret, the other brags about it on Chief Delphi! |
Kevin Leonard |
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Swerve Drive (n.) - a set of mechanisms to ensure the robot will sit dead on the field for half of that robot's first event |
Kevin Leonard |
Whippet |
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Everyone has regrets in robotics- it's how you learn from them that makes all the difference. |
Kevin Leonard |
TedG |
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Unfortunately, not everyone is Andy Baker. If everyone had this mindset, there would be far fewer problems. |
Kevin Kolodziej |
Joe Matt |
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Is it January yet?? |
Kevin Kolodziej |
Jessica Boucher |
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Can you describe how you utilized your human head device on your intake? |
Kevin Ainsworth |
frcguy |
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I would like the game to be called Sanity. Just for irony's sake. |
Keri Lynne |
JaneYoung |
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Mentor: How is that held in place?
CAD Lead: Go to the hardware store and buy a bag of constraints and put the constraints on the robot. |
Kenyow |
Kevin Selavko |
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thats like having 24 young men going wild for 2 minutes - thats how much power is available during a match. |
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"at some point in the next six weeks you are going to start feeling like you are involved in a robot building contest. Then you are in serious trouble" -Dean Kamen |
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when you think you are here to compete against other teams, thats when bad things start happening... |
KenWittlief |
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The [FIRST Robotics] competition is a friendly / gentleman's sort of sport... It is only a forum to put our machines to the test, and see how well we did against what WE set out to do -- not to see which team can build the best robot. |
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If you have to build the best robot to be inspired then we end up with one winning inspired team, and 999 losers. That is not the spirit of FIRST. |
KenWittlief |
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FIRST is like we have traveled to the future, and we dont like what we saw when we got there. So we came back and now we are attempting to alter the future |
KenWittlief |
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The only basis on which a team should be awarded the chairmans award is the content of the submission, not the way in which it is presented. |
KenWittlief |
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Unless your HS students have earned BSEE and BSME degreees already, how can they lead or run an engineering team? |
KenWittlief |
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I think these new rules are making the message coming from FIRST perfectly clear - engineering is about what happens between your ears, not what comes out of your deep pockets. |
KenWittlief |
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We are not here to build robots, or to win a contest, or to travel to cool places or to bring home trophies. we are here to see what a career in engineering and science is like; anything else that happens along the way is frosting on the cake |
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One last thing, if a mechanical part fails on you, sometimes you can get a little bit of noise back into it by yelling at it, kicking it, or pounding on it with your fist. This might put enough back into it so it will work for a few more minutes. |
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when all else fails, try making the bot go slower |
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If we succeed, we succeed as a team
if we fail, we fail as a team
but either way, we are a team - we go home together
and celebrate our accomplishments, whatever they are
and try to learn from our mistakes. |
KenWittlief |
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FIRST isnt about getting what you deserve, FIRST is about other people seeing potential in us - and giving us an opportunity that we could never have earned on our own
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KenWittlief |
Bharat Nain |
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Do you have to think about FIRST when you get up in the morning?
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KenWittlief |
Bharat Nain |
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There are no guarentees in life. Cherish what you have while you have it. None of us knows what tomorrow will bring. |
KenWittlief |
tribotec_ca88 |
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They really should put warning signs at all entrances: "WARNING! FIRST IS CONTAGIOUS!"
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KenWittlief |
Alex Pelan |
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oh, the prom! I thought you were missing a PROM (Programable Read Only Memory) ...you had me worried for a minute, I dont know if IFI has any spare PROMs. |
KenWittlief |
Katy |
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[Pi day] is an irrational holiday |
KenWittlief |
Daniel Brim |
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When you start thinking of FIRST as a robotic building contest you have left the pavement and you are in deep weeds. |
KenWittlief |
Daniel Brim |
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In the end engineering is what happens between your ears, not what you build with your hands, not what a machine spits out.
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KenWittlief |
Beth Sweet |
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each year the chairmans award is given to the team the judges think deserve it the most, for that year. How can it be any other way? |
KenWittlief |
Billfred |
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Knowledge is power. Know whats coming and you can be ready for it when it happens. |
KenWittlief |
Daniel Brim |
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FIRST is not a destination, its not the reward, its the slingshot that will launch you from where you are, to where you can be. |
KenWittlief |
Josh Hambright |
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Look past the robot. Look past your team. Science and technolgy are studies worth devoting your life too. |
KenWittlief |
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