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If it looks like an appendage, quacks like an appendage and moves like an appendage...it is an appendage... |
Bob Steele |
Ninja_Bait |
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Because it's a fun challenge. Kind of like Sudoku, but with lexan and evil geniuses. |
nathanww |
Nin_estarSaerah |
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The whole idea of a robot competition is geared around spectators. Take that away and you have a science fair. |
Chris is me |
Nin_estarSaerah |
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The animation is just a pretty tool to help outsiders understand the game; the manual is for me, the animation is for my grandmother. |
JVN |
Nin_estarSaerah |
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We will be stressed, we will be angry. But we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard, we need to be role models and inspirations to students. |
Andrew Schreiber |
nitneylion452 |
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Ohh the [strike]humanity[/strike] robotity! |
artdutra04 |
Noah Kleinberg |
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To me, the changing rules are a big part of the fun. If the rules stayed the same year to year, robots would start to look the same. That would be boring. |
Richard Wallace |
Noah Kleinberg |
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I just like that PVC is the most basic need of humankind according to that diagram. Whatever would we do without it?! |
Po-ser |
Noah Kleinberg |
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I think FIRST is a big trap. They lure you in with these cool competitions and shiny robots and along the way they trick you into learning something :) |
=Martin=Taylor= |
Noah Kleinberg |
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- oh dear - Will it be January soon? |
JaneYoung |
Noah Kleinberg |
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FIRST isn't chaotic; the rest of the world just moves in slow motion! |
StephLee |
Noah Kleinberg |
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You all have ample time to get your sleep in from the final day of nationals to the friday before kickoff. There should be no reason why anyone will need sleep for the next 6 weeks and then some. You all have had enough of sleep or hibernation, now its time to wake up and do some work =). |
mtaman02 |
Noah Kleinberg |
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And then, at the end of the match, the drive teams who are being lifted all say at once (in a GOVERNATOR voice)- "GET TO ZE CHOPPER!!!" |
Graham Donaldson |
Noah Kleinberg |
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I am a geek because of FIRST! Seriously, I was reeaalllllyyy boring before robotics. Not mechanically inclined at all. Now I love it! |
Éowyn |
Noah Kleinberg |
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After all, life is what you do outside of FIRST. No wonder it's so short. |
Vashts6583 |
Noah Kleinberg |
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The problem with anecdotal evidence is that you never seem to get the whole anecdote. |
Lea DeFoote |
Noah Kleinberg |
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However, the best responses come with patience. It might be a couple of days before you get a good answer or it could be 10 minutes. |
Molten |
NorviewsVeteran |
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Last I looked, FIRST wasn't an acronym for inspiration and recognition of robots. It was and is an acronym for inspiration and recognition of science and technology. |
JaneYoung |
NorviewsVeteran |
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in other words, "always have something to do that will change up your life" |
Nawaid Ladak |
NorviewsVeteran |
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Afterall, there's a thread for everything and everything in it's thread. |
Molten |
NorviewsVeteran |
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How many robotics kids does it take to turn on a light? |
demosthenes2k8 |
NorviewsVeteran |
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I won't tar and feather you, I'll disagree though. |
Andrew Schreiber |
NorviewsVeteran |
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10:56 p.m. EDT, July 20, 1969. |
dlavery |
NorviewsVeteran |
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I like my eyeballs where they are ::safety:: |
,4lex S. |
NorviewsVeteran |
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I didn't know that Dean Kamen had 3 arms. |
kevin.li.rit |
NorviewsVeteran |
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Andymark has everything! |
nighterfighter |
NorviewsVeteran |
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Hi. My name is Rick and I am a Roboholic. |
Rick TYler |
Nuttyman54 |
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FIRST is an addiction but at least it is one of the healthiest addictions you can have (if you wear your safety goggles!). |
Pavan Dave |
Nuttyman54 |
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Point is, there is no definite answer. This is FIRST, Whatever works well with your team is the best. |
NelsonMichael |
Nuttyman54 |
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To change culture, you're going to have to get people to listen. |
Yipyapper |
Nuttyman54 |
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Batteries are like clamps or money, you can never have enough. |
IndySam |
octothorpe |
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Remember to have fun! That's what the FIRST experience should be for you- a lot of fun while doing a lot of learning. |
smurfgirl |
octothorpe |
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If I thank everyone that I want to, we might be here for a while |
Karthik |
omutton |
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Tell them your newfound passion for FIRST as a program, and let them know all you're doing is getting more involved to broaden your FIRST horizon |
Dorienne |
omutton |
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After talking with the students on these teams I could see the light in their eyes. These were their robots! Inspired? That would be a definate YES! |
Steve W |
omutton |
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As a famous saying goes, don't criticize someone till you have walked a mile in their shoes. |
Steve W |
omutton |
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Maybe I'm just a chicken. Not to disparage the ThunderChickens. Those guys are a whole different breed of poultry. |
Kevin Sevcik |
omutton |
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Hard work is a necessary prerequisite for luck. |
Ian Curtis |
onecoolc |
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At every event I've seen this year, there has been at least one robot that left a part on the field. Even some of the robots have decided they don't want to play and this year and made a break for it in autonomous! :yikes: |
ctt956 |
Oslim1999 |
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Oh and don't mind the lightening holes. Thats just how I waste time when I get bored :P |
SerpentEagle |
Oslim1999 |
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Flash drive? I was thinking floppy disks...
:ahh:
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MrForbes |
Ozuru |
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Every match they would leave blue and red skid marks all over the carpet. It was like someone roadkilled a Smurf. |
Koko Ed |
Ozuru |
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After all, when any student is isolated because of a difference - because of race, gender, social beliefs, or ideological concepts - we all lose. |
MysterE |
Ozuru |
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I have always liked to see people get recognized for what they do, not people doing something to get recognized. |
sanddrag |
Pat Fairbank |
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If only all this food for thought happening in this thread could somehow be funneled into solving world hunger... |
artdutra04 |
Pat Fairbank |
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Andy Baker is so awsome, that his presence alone at the competition caused the scoring system to crash....multiple times...at all 8 regionals. |
Andy Grady |
Pat Fairbank |
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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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Right now that dream is sealed behind a few milimeters of plastic for most teams. |
AllenGregoryIV |
Pat Fairbank |
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Maybe FIRST could get a sponsorship from Ikea, and we all could get flat-packed field parts with pictoral assembly instructions. And then all the parts could have funny names. |
sanddrag |
Pat Fairbank |
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I was hoping they'd be selling robots. |
Tristan Lall |
PatrickBrew1086 |
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