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Just don't expect your hacksaw to make it through security |
mocat10 |
KaranY |
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“First time!!! It worked the first time!!!” |
SenorZ |
C4 |
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It's not the judges' responsibility to keep streaks alive. That's on the teams to continue pushing the envelope of what they can achieve with their programs, and continue giving the judges new and better reasons to select them each year. |
Lil' Lavery |
Billfred |
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The key to a successful auto is to design the robot such that auto is as simple as possible. |
Jared Russell |
cadandcookies |
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The best way to prevent your design from being copied is having a very bad design. |
Jared Russell |
rsisk |
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Want to know how to beat them? Don't stop evolving. You made an awesome widget? Great. What's next? What can you do to evolve it and make it better and stay competitive? |
marshall |
Billfred |
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It's about learning enough - not just about robots, but about life in general - to become a solid, effective role model for your students. |
jtrv |
James1902 |
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775s are amazing things... |
Type |
ctt956 |
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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by bugs. |
virtuald |
Brian Maher |
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Some say Sir Charles is still at the Georgia Dome game announcing to this day... |
Ryan Dognaux |
Pat McCarthy |
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This is good training for the real world, where you will have to deal with those kinds of projects that make you die a little inside every time. It's very inspiring stuff! |
s_forbes |
RoboChair |
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One match does not determine the overall power of a robot. |
Anuraag Routray |
jaredhk |
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Bag and tag is so unfair. The practice bot does all of the hard work and the competition bot gets all the credit and glory. |
smitikshah |
Katie_UPS |
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We found the 558 team member using a fake account! |
notmattlythgoe |
rtomp |
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TL, DR - Bag rules are dumb. |
Kris Verdeyen |
Justin Foss |
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The quality and timeliness of the answers you get will be proportional to the effort you invest in wording your question accurately and unambiguously. |
Ether |
EricH |
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Getting things to go the right places takes a certain level of finesse, and sometimes that finesse comes in the form of a hammer. |
firecrafty |
Volpidash2770 |
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I didn't do that math, because it's twice as depressing. |
Ian Curtis |
cadandcookies |
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I would try removing comments from your code. You have no idea how much weight comments add to your code. Being overweight is usually the programmer's fault. |
BenDSterling |
KaranY |
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"It's not a beauty contest, it's put-a-block-on-a-thing contest." |
The Sofa |
ctt956 |
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If the greatest injustice we see in FRC this year is that a rookie team is allowed to compete when they show up with a kitbot that is 1/4" too wide, I for one will be ecstatic. |
Jared Russell |
Xand10 |
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Somewhere there is a forest which is crying out to be seen but is stuck behind a bunch of trees. |
Tom Bottiglieri |
Kpchem |
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If the rules need to be read a specific way to convey the intended meaning, then they might not actually be clear. |
MrForbes |
Richard Wallace |
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One of my former students went on to intern with SpaceX and Tesla, and is now back as a mentor. He came early today and I introduced him to my class. He got a pretty solid reception that might compare favorably to being a pro athlete. The first question he got was about the $. |
mrnoble |
Billfred |
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Also, unlike FRC most houses don't have to deal with other houses ramming them at high speeds repeatedly. |
Monochron |
Bkeeneykid |
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I tell my kids "don't turn a small disaster into a larger one". |
girmann |
ctt956 |
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6063 is the devils aluminum. Have fun deburring ALL your holes and cuts, frickin' cheese-grade I tell ya. |
RoboChair |
Monochron |
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“Just put a zip tie on it. It’ll buff out”. That’s been our thing this year. Everything buffs out don’t worry about it. |
George Willis |
ctt956 |
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The robot is talking to you, you need to listen. |
Al Skierkiewicz |
ctt956 |
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The postseason exhibitions in Houston and Detroit feel less and less like an opportunity for teams to enjoy FIRST and more and more like an opportunity for FIRST's donors to enjoy FIRST. |
PayneTrain |
ctt956 |
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You can always look back on the you from 5 years before, and realize how silly you were. |
ParkerF |
Billfred |
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There seems to exist an entire contingent of people who are so blinded by brownie-dogma that they will not even entertain a new dessert paradigm. |
JVN |
JohnSchneider |
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The first 80% of the tasks take 80% of the time. The final 20% of the tasks take the remaining 80% of the time. |
garyk |
baumgartensam |
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I'm a lazy mechanical designer. Any problem I can bunt into the programming world I will. |
JamesCH95 |
Monochron |
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Many years ago, when our team initially started this website, we hoped it would be understood by those that choose to use it - respectful, shared thoughts and ideas would yield a better FIRST community. |
meaubry |
Cothron Theiss |
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What kind of chaos?
If you would, please describe the chaos in more detail for the benefit of interested readers. |
Ether |
cadandcookies |
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+1 for cardboard assisted design (CAD)! |
Richard Wallace |
Skyehawk |
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Brevity is the soul of wit. |
JVN |
itsjustjon |
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Reliability counts. Inconsistency makes great robots lose events. Murphy's law knows no bounds. |
ratdude747 |
aronsa |
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I agree it's a terrible idea, but part of me also feels like it'd be fun ;) |
FredyK200 |
Xand10 |
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There is a game design philosophy which goes something like: "Understand the difference between challenges and frustrations. Eliminate frustrations. Do not leave frustrations in place and pretend they're challenges." |
JVN |
CalTran |
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Walls are put there to see how much you really want it. |
Daniel_LaFleur |
RoboChair |
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If there is no creative defense this year, I'll have to go back and re-examine a lot of my basic assumptions. Things like length, time, and gravity. |
GeeTwo |
cadandcookies |
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You know that clever thing? Don't do that. It's ok to take risks if you think everything through, but if your CAD looks like an Inspector Gadget cartoon, its time to slow down... |
dmaggio744 |
Bkeeneykid |
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Code for all scenarios you need to handle and pray to RNGesus. |
RoboChair |
kiettyyyy |
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If you would like an official ruling, then you need to submit your question to the official FIRST Q&A. We're just a bunch of schmoes like you. |
Tom Line |
jaredhk |
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Simple and working beats ambitious and flakey every time. |
Levansic |
MuskieProgramme |
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I should read more documentation and less CD! |
MrNick |
Ty Tremblay |
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...as with most drive train decisions, I think it will come down much more to how well a team executes their design and drives their robot than the actual choice of drive trains. |
mathking |
ctt956 |
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We've been developing some — as freshman put it — "hella lit" code. |
solomondg |
Monochron |
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