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I always thought a trained bio mechanical monkey wrapped in aluminum foil would be the best robot, but every year my team says "No Pete, go sit down." |
BuddyB309 |
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Unfortunately, you cannot always tell when some things are jokes on forums, because we only can rely on text and a limited number of smilies. |
artdutra04 |
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We really are nerds, aren't we? |
Eria4044 |
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What can you do? The more time you waste here speculating the less time you have to work on the robot. Go! Build Robots! Now! |
Jessica Boucher |
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Ultrasonic sensors will allow you to do fundamentally the same thing that the bump sensors do...so you can slow down and smoothly stop your robot just before it reaches the end wall, instead of running into it at full speed and then figuring out "ohh! there is a wall there!" |
dlavery |
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And I think the poll needs another option: WILL be under weight ... eventually ... just get me a drill. :D |
Franchesca |
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I wish my biology class was this exciting. |
MissInformation |
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Actually, FIRST Is hoping the reverse, that your bot will be "Ball damage proof" |
Rombus |
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It is better to err on the side of caution than to put yourself in a position to have a referee or judge make a call against you. Build smart! |
Sean Schuff |
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Even though others have had success, I will be honest, this method sort of creeps me out. |
Joe Johnson |
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This exercise in thanking the hand that teaches you brought to you by the Unsung FIRST Heroes Award. Have you thanked your mentor lately? |
Amanda Morrison |
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Woodie once said he wanted to make our brains hurt. And I *don't* think he was talking about getting beaned by 198 grams of foam.... |
Ken Patton |
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I was not looking at this as a backdoor to asking Brandon to do it (when I have impossible/unreasonable tasks I want done, I ask him straight out ;-) |
Joe Johnson |
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What? No Poof balls as pillows? Phfff. Amateur. :p |
artdutra04 |
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I know what "finished" means, and I know what "robot" means, but what is this "finished robot" of which you speak? |
Rick TYler |
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I am surprised at the relative conservative capability you described on our 2006 machine. As for the 2007 machine, in anticipation of an aquatic game, we have completed a robot that "walks on water" and are well along with one that can "part the sea". |
Bill Beatty |
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If you need more complicated control... make it more complicated yourself. ;) |
Ryan M. |
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Besides, you know hard it is to solder with gloves on? |
Al Skierkiewicz |
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This is just one example of why you MUST NOT make engineering decisions based on assumptions. You should check/measure your parts and make appropriate design adjustments. |
Stu Bloom |
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I'm absolutely certain there are simpler ways of accomplish the same things. I'm simply not the best that FIRST has to offer in this regard and part of what drives me to keep going is the desire to get better at achieving an elegant solution with as few superfluous processes as possible. |
Madison |
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darn design trade-offs! the game design committee does this to us every year! |
KenWittlief |
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Looks great! Love that Indiana engineering!! |
Mr.D |
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being surgically altered to have two right hands is a big commitment, but if you wanna drive, and drive well ..... ! |
KenWittlief |
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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). |
Chris Hibner |
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Looks very well designed. Now where is the "export to reality" button in the CAD software? (I have been looking for it for weeks). |
sanddrag |
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and if you don't know what i'm doing, that makes two of us. |
RogerR |
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You guys can send [Wisconsin] some warm Florida weather, its getting cold up here again. |
Ricky Q. |
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If you have the time to be caught up on Delphi and the Q&A forum, then you have time to go write a WFA entry. No more excuses. Go! Write! Now! :) |
Jessica Boucher |
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There's nothing wrong with the loader [dividing by zero], John just misses us 229'ers and wanted everyone to know :-P |
Jay Trzaskos |
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Uhh... we were supposed to be building a robot? *looks at giant wooden Trojan Rabbit in the corner that was built instead for the past 6 weeks* Whoops... |
Adam Richards |
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Me: Hi, Honey - I'm home!
Wife: Must have shipped the robot today, huh? |
meaubry |
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IF teams did NOT READ THE FIRST MANUAL AND Q&A SITE, it is not FIRST's fault, it is the TEAM'S fault |
sburro |
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No, nothing secret unless you include the following: will it work?, can it be driven and will it release the balls. |
twolf |
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Joe is a great sport and this was a good moral booster after a grueling weekend. How many opportunities do you get to play William Tell with a Regional WFA Winner? :) |
The Lucas |
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It really is up to us to stand up for these principles so when we sell it to the general public we're not just feeding them some line because if we don't believe it, why should they? |
Koko Ed |
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Use the mentor to lay down the law. They're not there to be your friends they're there to keep the kids focused on the job at hand. |
Koko Ed |
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We want to be a positive force in our community, and maybe to encourage our country’s best and brightest to go to work for the ones who’ve put themselves in harm’s way. |
Jack Jones |
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Now, our team did meet, but there wasn't much inspiring going on. Unless you call pegging me with more darn poof balls exciting. |
Paul Copioli |
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hmmm... big open space between arena and pits... thousands of poof balls...thousands of high school kids hopped up on sugar and robotics.... sounds a little dangerous. |
Courtneyb1023 |
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Inside Dave's Head (which is a place I'd like to go someday, but I'm not entirely sure what I'd find)... |
Ian Curtis |
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Football has been a school institution for over 100 years--we can't expect FIRST to show the same potential in a 10th of that. |
Petey |
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If you are playing foozball and your ball bounces back out of the goal, do you expect the table's manufacturer to fix it? No - you groan and keep playing! Nothing's different here. Like Dave said, it's part of the challenge of playing the game. |
petek |
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we were sick and tired of compromises: "speed or torque", "traction or maneuverability", etc.; bump that, we want it all. all we had to compromise was simplicity. |
RogerR |
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It isnt about winning and losing (although getting the trophies and medals are nice) |
Winged Wonder |
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There is no shame in playing the best match you can play. |
sanddrag |
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If this strategy backfires on any alliance that attempts it, they will have no one to blame but themselves. Be smart - know the risks before proceeding. |
Travis Hoffman |
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I, for one, have no particular problem with singing, dancing and sex appeal. Mark Leon combines all that with a career at NASA! |
Rick TYler |
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my original intention were that the 5 of them were the power rangers, but then i thought of Copioli as the Pink Ranger and laughed... a lot |
Mike Schroeder |
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we would all build robots to play "rock-paper-scissors" if FIRST told us to, cause it is just so freakin' much fun to build a robot until 2:30am every night for six weeks! |
dlavery |
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Judging the Championship CA must be the hardest thing to do in FIRST. I'd rather try to stop an alliance of 1114, 111, and 25 from scoring 3 pointers than to judge the CA between these teams. |
Andy Baker |
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