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You know you are a true tech geek when you end up on top of the Sears tower, and the only pictures you post are the ones of the radio antennae. ;) |
Tom Line |
Jay O'Donnell |
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Never allow your students to get away with an answer that amounts to "because it's better". Have them prove it to the best of their ability, and when they're wrong, ask them to figure out why they're wrong. |
Tom Line |
rsisk |
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My wife just looked over my shoulder, shook her head, and said "Only engineers...." |
Tom Line |
MechEng83 |
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I've got a couple team members who have an incredible knack for destroying robot parts... |
Tom Line |
dictionaria13 |
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Tell the truth - that's really a small barbecue grill on that robot isn't it. |
Tom Line |
frcguy |
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FIRST is like riding a bike. At first it may seem hard and confusing, but after a few tries you get the hang of it and its smooth sailing from then on out. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Billfred |
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No, I dont mix robots and girls. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Billfred |
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Supporting a FIRST team, only paying 10 bucks, and possibly winning a segway... what could be better! :) |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Elgin Clock |
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Use these tools as a starting point, not as an end product. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
BandChick |
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All I know is I have fun building a robot, and I have fun competing with it. If I get an award, I'm happy. If I don't, then too bad. Either way, I'm coming back next year. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Jessica Boucher |
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We are all just pawns in FIRST's quest for global domination. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Conor Ryan |
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If winning that individual match is more important to you than being there in the first place, then I believe you've got your priorities in the wrong spot. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
dlavery |
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You might even learn something! |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Billfred |
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Maybe we won't get any motors at all! Rotary Pneumatics, here we come! |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Billfred |
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I don't want a carbon copy of your wheels.. I want to improve upon your design. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Ryan Foley |
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I think FIRST is probably close to the farthest you can get from 'gangsta', outscored only by the math team. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Billfred |
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The easiest and most effective way to do this for the Championship event is pre-competition scouting, with statistics. Nothing beats it. Hands down. Period. The End. Nothing's better. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Corey Balint |
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You can never take enough precautions when it comes to safety. Please, be prepared for anything. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Billfred |
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Using a mouse is so 20th century! |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Rohith Surampudi |
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Remember, let function drive design, not the other way around. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Kim Masi |
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You Texas boys and your fancy swerve drive. Why don't ya'll come up here to New England? I'm about to saddle me up a skid steer and herd ya'll fellers into a corner. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Pavan Dave |
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If everyone could just worry about how much fun they are having rather than how much they disagree with other teams, the program would be much better off. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Karthik |
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Why is everyone on these boards so obsessed with Segways? |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Billfred |
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Does this mean the end of "Spin Around/Dance" autonomous modes? |
Tom Bottiglieri |
lukevanoort |
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I can attest that mentoring is probably the most important aspect of this program. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Richard Wallace |
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Even as a "mentor", I am still being mentored by engineers who work with the team. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Andy Baker |
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Unfortunately our team missed out on a great opportunity to "learn from the pros" because we did student-centric things like insisting on having a student field coach. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Jeff Rodriguez |
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We're basically using a two step process: 1. Smoke 2. Mirrors |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Anna B. |
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Surprise! There is no ideal alliance. As soon as you think you have a winning strategy, someone WILL figure out how to beat it. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
hipsterjr |
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If I had come up with a chokehold strategy, I wouldn't talk about it on Chief Delphi. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Karthik |
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So, you're saying there's a correlation between hard work and success? Who woulda thunk it?! |
Tom Bottiglieri |
rtfgnow |
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It would be better as the software person to preach to your team early on for non-reliance on software. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Jared Russell |
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There's no problem another CIM motor wouldn't fix! |
Tom Bottiglieri |
thefro526 |
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The best way to build a brand is to win. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Meredith Novak |
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Anything that moves sideways is a waste of time. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
RogerR |
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If the GDC doesn't want better teams to strap components on to other robots, they should design a game that doesn't require better teams to strap components on to other robots to win. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Pat Fairbank |
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Robot gets bored during practice, wanted to listen to some podcasts. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
frcguy |
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Build the wrong robot that aims well or build the right robot that can't aim.... decisions, decisions.... |
Tom Bottiglieri |
JesseK |
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An awesome unveiling video is not necessarily an indicator of onfield performance. |
ToddF |
Travis Hoffman |
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There will always be a point in your FIRST experience when you realize you can get away with something that is against the rules. It is at that point when you have a choice to make about your own personal ethics, and what sort of example you will set for your students. |
ToddF |
Carolyn_Grace |
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We live for those eureka moments. Whether we win or lose competitions, it's those moments when a student's idea makes something just "click" that will stick with them and influence them to become engineers. |
ToddF |
sircedric4 |
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shhhh...our robot is in a bag now, it won't hurt anyone till the milwaukee wisconsin regional. hopefully it won't be fiesty. don't wake it. |
Toatekua |
Jessica Boucher |
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Just wait till Heidi learns video-editing skills. |
tkwetzel |
Billfred |
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I don't have enough vacation time for them to start allowing video replay. |
TJP123 |
Alan Anderson |
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I tried to write a scouting app and wanted to throw my desk out a window... |
tjf |
ctt956 |
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Organization is the one skill that can help make *any* workshop work. |
tjf |
ctt956 |
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So, the game hint is there is no game hint. |
tindleroot |
Whippet |
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Andy Baker doesn't go to IRI. IRI comes to Andy Baker. |
tim_reiher |
Akash Rastogi |
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You know you have bad field problems if both Dean and Woodie come out to try to fix them... :) |
tim_reiher |
Anna B. |
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Well our closest regional is a Hawaii, it's a bit hard for us to drive 8000km (5000 miles) across the pacific... |
timytamy |
JackN |
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