March 2012
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Things that happen at our lab
1. Our programmer pokes himself in the eye with a redvine
2. Our vice president falls off a table, after laying down on it and scooting his whole upper body off it to look at something on the floor. Gravity defeated him!
3. People fail at playing kazoos. Instead of kazoozing, you get “mmmmmm. mmmmmm. it’s not working!”
4. The robot turning on scares a mentor into literally...
February 2012
13 posts
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PBSD: Post Build Season Depression
anyone else?
Almost bagged...
… we have ten minutes.
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GigaPan image of 2009 FRC World Championships →
you can click on team numbers at the bottom to zoom to a specific team in the stands.
If you zoom to 971, you will see me drinking a soda, and the other admin of this blog, Charlotte, three spaces down with a yellow headband :)
You can also see the drive teams of 971, 111, and 67 at “Red Alliance” (even though we were on blue).
(this picture is from the Einstein semifinals)
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ONE WEEK UNTIL SHIP.
EVERYONE HERE IS COMPLETELY CALM.
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FRC Team Numbers Matching Game →
Match the team number with the team name :)
971 created a matching game that cycles through about 40 FRC teams/numbers.
Enjoy!
~971
edit: this now has 53 hits! Albeit at least 15 of them are from me alone…
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Did I mention we have a twitter? →
I can write stuff for here easily, but I can never...
So much more stressful to write for that!
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Freshmen and rivets
Last year, our team discovered the wonderful, wonderful thing that is Celco pins. These are temporary poprivets that let you snap together a drivebase without putting in permanent rivets.
They are SO NICE.
And our freshmen do not understand the wonder that is Cleco pins. They mock us when we explain how annoying/time consuming using rivets was.
They need to learn differently. We...
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"Catapults, flying saucers, and guillotines are... →
“We wanted to craft a show that puts the process of problem solving and ingenuity front and center, and we’ve done exactly that with Unchained Reaction,” Savage said.
“Mechanical movements, pyrotechnics, and large-scale destruction are encouraged,” according to Discovery.
are we wrong, or is this not a show built for FRC?
premieres in March on Discovery.
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We were done with the CAD, but apparently there’s this thing about the sheet metal having to obey physics, or something ridiculous like that.
psh.
obeying physics is for squares.
and mobius strips.