Overall... the secret is PROTOTYPING! Design is an iterative process. Do some basic design in your head. Build it. Test it. Improve it. Repeat until satisfied. - JVN [more]
This file contains everything you need to know (or at least of lot of it) about the 2004 IRI.
This document will be updated as new information becomes available.
This is the golf tournament fund raising packet created by Team Fusion 364. In 2004, the tournament, our only fund raiser generated 23K from over 140 sponsors. This revenue accounts for over 70% of our total yearly budget. Not only did we make 23K, but through sales incentives (10% on sales of t-si...
This is a list of all the materials you will need to build a battery cart. Solidwork Drawings will be posted in the next few months. If you have any questions and please feel free to PM I and I will help you with anything I can. Hope every team has one of these HOT battery carts next year!!
This paper is an essay I wrote for my college english class. The topic is our ideas on community, so naturally I wrote about FIRST- the best example I know. Let me know what you think. Thanks!
This is an improvement over the previous scouting form. Only 8 matches to allow for pic of bot on both sides.
MS Word two side (front and back) Pic (profiles are best) and team name and number on front. Designed for a four scout crew. Each scout watches only one robot and records its performa...
Here's some of the data I gathered throughout the regional season. I have data on every team that competed at every regional event throughout the 2004 season.
There's a separate master sheet that can be sorted by division, or can be used to compare all the teams in the nation.
This is the final page of the winning LSR chairman's submission.
If shows the main format of the submission. It takes on a Dr. Seuss theme with the poem "Oh the places we'll go..." I will submit pages 1, 2, and 3 soon.
I had a display at K-State's Open House and someone tho...
MS Word two side (front and back) Pic (profiles are best) and team name and number on front. Designed for a four scout crew. Each scout watches only one robot and records its performance. Each scout observes the number of the first three balls that are made by the team thay are observing. They ...
This is a beginners guide to Autodesk Inventor. It will take the user through the fundamentals of CAD work. It covers everything from creating a sketch, making a part and an extrusion, creating an assembly, and creating the drawings for manufacturing. This does not cover every aspect of Autodesk ...
This is a sheet I whipped together for my scouts to use. I decided we needed to try a new direction in scouting; each scouting team member puts down his/her name and is the resident expert on that robot. This means that each person is responsible for five to ten machines. I wanted to place a high em...
Overall... the secret is PROTOTYPING! Design is an iterative process. Do some basic design in your head. Build it. Test it. Improve it. Repeat until satisfied. - JVN [more] 
