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Instead of prototyping with plywood and machining metal for the final version, they make their prototypes out of sheet metal and machine the final robot out of wood. :) |
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bam-bam |
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Brainstorming and creativity are great, but you do actually have to build the ideas you come up with sometime. |
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thefro526 |
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Step 1: Get a blue banner.
Step 2: Wave it everywhere until your School Board acknowledges your existence.
We haven't gotten to Step 1 yet, unfortunately. |
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pwnageNick |
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And when I heard the word "Mentor Round" - you had me SOLD. |
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dag0620 |
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I like how we're trying to save weight when we came in at 95 pounds. |
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548swimmer |
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After it took us weeks to machine sideplates for our 8WD, seeing their simple yet effective drivetrain was a huge "forehead slap" moment. |
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jwfoss |
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71% efficiency is best efficiency. ;) |
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Tristan Lall |
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FIRST games are complex and rely on design and intellectual capability much more than the average sport. |
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Hallry |
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A shaft that yielded is just as useless as a shaft that broke. |
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Ninja_Bait |
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Teams are overconfident every year. Honest evaluation of your capabilities with regard to your design strategy is a skill few teams have. |
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EricLeifermann |
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My strongest FIRST memories, and the teams that leave the biggest impact on me, are teams that seem like they have every reason to give up, but never do. |
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CalTran |
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Iteration is a necessary but not sufficient criteria to being a powerhouse team. |
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Gregor |
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Is the bottom slot just to make the whole thing look like a smiley face, or is it functional? |
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Calvin Hartley |
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Great teams with great software have control loops. Clever teams without software have pneumatics. |
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MrForbes |
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The Scouting Award exists. It's called "Championship Winner". |
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Grim Tuesday |
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More later, if anyone's interested and I still have homework to avoid. |
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TheHolyHades1 |
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Mentor-built (adj.): A term describing a robot that is better than your own, and / or a robot with paint on it. |
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Logan Byers |
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Don't fix mechanical problems with software, ever. |
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DeformedFedora |
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It's nice to see how patient people will be on here even with people who are 99.9999% trolling. Something something GP. |
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ctt956 |
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You're here for them, not for you. |
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Taylor |
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2015 never happened |
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Brian Maher |
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Why is it considered shameful to do the smart thing? As the saying goes, "I don't make the rules, I just live by them."
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My point is that there seems to be a trend in FIRST in which people are saying "who cares about the robots, let's inspire the students." What I'm saying is, it's the robots that inspire the students. |
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Teams that TRY to win and TRY to do their best end up having students that learn more, learn the value of hard work, and are inspired by the process. |
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Karthik |
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teams that REALLY deserve to win will find ways to overcome a marginal officiating decision. Also, teams that REALLY deserved to win will try not to put themselves in that position. |
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Josh Hambright |
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...I've changed my position. I'm fully supportive of Joe's suggestion... |
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Joe Johnson |
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...your education can be interesting and even fun. If you look a little farther down the path, you WILL "use this crap", and "this crap" can even be cool if you know how to use it. |
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Winged Globe |
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To me, FIRST is about having students realize that there IS an answer to the age old high school question: "when are we ever going to use this crap?" |
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Cory |
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Overall, I thought FIRST did a great job with the rules this year - very simple and very clear for the most part. However, something is always going to fall through the cracks (and I don't mean that in a bad way - people need to know that it's practically impossible to do something perfectly). |
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Billfred |
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I guess my point is, let's see how it plays out before we condemn it to failure. |
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AndyB |
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Then use Newton's handy-dandy 2nd law (Force = mass*acceleration) to solve... |
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kramarczyk |
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math and physics save a lot of money!!! Pay attention in school - this is why your teachers are torturing you with this stuff. |
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Taylor |
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Wow, an entire thread with positive comments. I must be on the wrong forum... but my URL still says chiefdelphi.com. Hmmmm... |
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Hallry |
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You are becoming the leaders of tomorrow by leading today. |
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The competition is different - everybody really "wins" by all of the great things teams think of to do for other teams and the community. |
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generalbrando |
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COMPETE like crazy for the 2 minutes you are on the field,
COOPERATE like crazy all the rest of the time.
When we play this way, we all win. |
Chris Fultz |
JVN |
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A FIRST door is always open. |
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Amanda Morrison |
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But now the most important question - is there a practical application for one of these devices on a FIRST robot? |
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Billfred |
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The engineers and mentors provide the "I" in FIRST and FIRST would be nowhere near where it is today without this exceptional leadership shown by so many of these volunteers. |
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David Kelly |
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We were also at 9,999 [characters] for Chairmans...Mom always said I was an under-achiever. |
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Billfred |
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Your opions and statements DO reflect on your team and its' reputation, regardless of what your disclaimer says. |
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dlavery |
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If Amanda is 'old', I am beginning to feel like a fossil.... |
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nehalita |
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If you cannot complete relatively simple tasks, why would anyone assign you something more challenging?? |
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Collin Fultz |
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Who would think 130 points would be a losing score! |
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Billfred |
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Well, it worked in inventor . . . |
Chris Fultz |
Éowyn |
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One key, esspecialy for newer teams, is to understand that the game rule book and design requirements are requirements, not suggestions. |
Chris Fultz |
IndySam |
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Don't be in a rush to build a robot until you know what robot it is you need to build. |
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Jeff Waegelin |
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The mecanum is like the dress shoe, the treaded wheel is like the athletic shoe. |
Chris Fultz |
Ian Curtis |
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This thread is so done I can almost smell the burnt. |
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JaneYoung |
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Think, Write, Re-Think, Erase or Post - and Deal With it Either Way. |
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