#frcrobotics — Public Fediverse posts
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Bombsquad's C U N E
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Farewell, robotics seniors.
Thank you for making FIRST robotics a fantastic community. We will miss your presence, and all that you bring to your teams. Wherever your path takes you, we wish you best of luck. As new students step up to take your place, we hope to make you proud. You have worked to make this such an amazing community. Good luck in all your future endeavors, and thank you so much for everything you have done.
#farewell #frc #frcrobotics #seniors #graduation #robotics #thankyou
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After a bit of a break since the main competition season, we're at #WPI this weekend for an off-season #FIRSTRobotics competition. A good excuse for the students to visit the campus as well. GO OVERDRIVE #8410!
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Well, calckey is up and ready to go!
Account registration is OPEN. Come join us over at frcsocial.me!
Please, repost/boost this!
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I guess what I'm trying to say is FIRST gives us the opportunity to meet so many fantastic people. That would have just been anther person on the plane. So many people stop to talk with us, and it's astonishing to find out how many people are excited about robots, and how many people were in FIRST.
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SERT 2521 is going to Worlds, and we need help to get there! It's expensive to get a robot and a team to Houston, but it's an incredible, once-in-a-lifetime experience. Any donations are appreciated!
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How do I *politely* tell someone I don't want them traveling with my robotics team when they specially misgender my friends, complain about wearing masks, and make everything about politics?
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What a wild ride. From last year (first year) of being lucky if our robot stayed together, and even our most recent competition 2 weeks ago where we ranked 9th from the bottom to finish our first day of this weekend's competition in 6 place!
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WE WON!!! We just won our first robotics event, and placed first overall!!!! We are going to districts, and there’s a very real chance at worlds!!
Watch out Taylor Swift, we’re coming!
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Being able to sleep in your own bed for a robotics competition weekend is severely underrated.
Getting to that bed before midnight remains a challenge.
#FRCRobotics #UNH #8410
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Some last minute tweaks to the autonomous code before loading up tomorrow for the competition. Looks like we'll have an extra 4 points over our last competition's routine and a _much_ more reliable gripper. Very glad we were able to get the LEDs running on the robot as well. Competition at #UNH Whittemore Center with 40 other teams all this weekend. Free admission. Stop in anytime and say hi.
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The competition this past weekend was intense and energizing. Day 2 led the team to adapting their strategy to essentially ignore the whole arm assembly since we couldn't get it working reliably and focus on our strengths of autonomous balancing and a combination of scoring by pushing and some defense.
Made it into the finals as a first pick in the second round of alliance selection (an improvement over last year) and getting one win in.
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Best part of robotics: scaring small children.
(Okay, not even close to the best, but it funny when there's a glowing head rolling towards you in a dark hallway)
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Day 1 in the books and I'm spent. The team just couldn't catch a break. Morale sunk pretty low. Learning some tough lessons on adjusting plans and expectations when you find yourself in a place you didn't plan on.
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Day 1 in the books and I'm spent. The team just couldn't catch a break. Morale sunk pretty low. Learning some tough lessons on adjusting plans and expectations when you find yourself in a place you didn't plan on.
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Day 1 in the books and I'm spent. The team just couldn't catch a break. Morale sunk pretty low. Learning some tough lessons on adjusting plans and expectations when you find yourself in a place you didn't plan on.
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Day 1 in the books and I'm spent. The team just couldn't catch a break. Morale sunk pretty low. Learning some tough lessons on adjusting plans and expectations when you find yourself in a place you didn't plan on.
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Day 1 in the books and I'm spent. The team just couldn't catch a break. Morale sunk pretty low. Learning some tough lessons on adjusting plans and expectations when you find yourself in a place you didn't plan on.
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In the final hours of practice/tweaks before everything gets packed up tomorrow and shipped to Rhode Island for our competition this weekend.
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It's all coming together! Competition in just a few more days. Still some work to do like mounting and wiring the gripper, but a lot of satisfied faces today seeing it drive for the first time and successfully (and easily) mount and balance on the charge station on the first attempt.
#FRCRobotics #8410 #STEM
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So our original schedule of getting the #robot to software for a week before the competition got cut down to 2 days, and now we're supposed to get a foot of snow for one of them.
They said that #FRCRobotics would be tough, but come on already!
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Now that stressful part of the project where it's inevitably proposed "hey, if we work 34 hour days, we can probably still get it all done".
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Now that stressful part of the project where it's inevitably proposed "hey, if we work 34 hour days, we can probably still get it all done".
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Now that stressful part of the project where it's inevitably proposed "hey, if we work 34 hour days, we can probably still get it all done".
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Now that stressful part of the project where it's inevitably proposed "hey, if we work 34 hour days, we can probably still get it all done".
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Now that stressful part of the project where it's inevitably proposed "hey, if we work 34 hour days, we can probably still get it all done".
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Fun coding project for the day.
The strategy team found https://www.statbotics.io/ which calculates an "EPA" expected points added for teams in matches. I was able to add it to our team HUD discord bot to help provide strength and weakness data for alliance partners or opponents during competitions.
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Making a robot turn efficiently (i.e. rotating from 10 deg to 350 deg by turning back 20 degrees instead of turning 340 degrees)
TIL:
error = (heading - target + 540) % 360 - 180 -
This last month was a doosie. Layoff notice, multi day power outage, multi day heating outage (yes those were 2 separate events), caught COVID round 2.
Got a little normalcy back today. 6 hour build session for #frcrobotics team #8410. Fabrication is almost done. Electrical and software teams are chomping at the bit to get their hands on it. In the meantime some other well established teams are already in week 0 competitions today.
Here's the team's most recent update.
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Another couple hours of #frcrobotics tonight. The team is really hitting its groove. Lot's of collaboration between subteams, great energy and encouragement, everyone pitching in where they can.
Came home after and needed to run on the dreadmill to ensure I'd be able to settle down for bed. Back at it again on Wednesday.
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Escaped the no heat home for a few hours for an evening #frcrobotics session. Really impressed with the software team's progress. I was freed up enough to float between the teams to help out with wiring, game strategy, gripper design, and a few other odds and ends.
The business team finished up their first build season video. Enjoy
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Back at it again this weekend. A long build session yesterday for #frcrobotics. Today an all day #vexrobotics competition.
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Since I believe the students should be doing all the #FRCRobotics coding, I'm keeping myself busy by building tooling that can help the team access the necessary information more easily.
This week was loading all the new rules (https://firstfrc.blob.core.windows.net/frc2023/Manual/2023FRCGameManual.pdf) for Charged Up into a #Discord bot (not a big fan of discord myself, but the students like using it) and let them do things like:
[at]bot rules search [keyword]
to find rules that mention a particular keyword.
https://github.com/OysterRiverOverdrive/hud/blob/main/discord/cmd_rules.go
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This year's #frcrobotics challenge.
Pick and place mechanics and agile driving look like they're going to be critical.
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#ByTheSkinOfOurTeeth got network access to twitch available on the school network for tomorrow's #frcrobotics competition launch. Otherwise it would have been tethering off a phone and guaranteed buffering and delays.
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Woo! #frcrobotics launch event is this Saturday then let the frenetic build season start. The entire team has learned a lot since last year. There's much more emphasis being placed on collaboration and coordination.
It'll be exciting to see what new lessons we learn this year.
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Only a few more days till the FRC Kickoff! I can't wait to see what the game is, the trailers sure look interesting. (Water game!)
For those who may not know, FIRST Robotics is a competition where highschool teams design, build and code a large robot in 6 weeks. It's a whole lot of fun, and any highschoolers interested in a STEM field should check it out.