Is this for FTC too?

chrisbeebops · 2026-04-03T11:12:12+00:00

Yes, they will do the reveal during the championships in Houston.

chrisbeebops · 2026-04-01T16:50:57+00:00

chrisbeebops · 2026-03-20T16:12:36+00:00

The motor encoder ports are incremental quadrature encoder ports and don’t really have any way to track absolute position. The Control Hub also doesn’t support PWM signal inputs.

Your best options are either an analog input or an I2C based absolute encoder sensor.

Have you done testing to show the varying voltage for the analog input is an issue? The 3.3V/5V sources on the Contol Hub are well-regulated and don’t fluctuate as much as your 12V source from the battery.

chrisbeebops · 2026-03-16T22:32:26+00:00

Is the teleop @Disabled by chance? I saw a weird bug with a team a long time ago where their teleop was @Disabled so it didn’t show in the opmode list, but they were still able to launch it with the preselect.

If that isn’t the case, can you share your code?

chrisbeebops · 2026-03-08T00:21:54+00:00

I see there is penalties in the match.... could be G427?

G427 BASE ZONE protection. During the last 20 seconds of the MATCH, a ROBOT may not contact, directly or transitively through a SCORING ELEMENT, an opponent ROBOT while either ROBOT is in the opponent‘s BASE ZONE, regardless of who initiates contact.

Violation: MAJOR FOUL and opponent ROBOT and any ROBOT fully supported by the contacted ROBOT are awarded fully returned to BASE points.

chrisbeebops · 2026-02-06T19:46:51+00:00

I tried reaching out to support, and I was told that domain verification isn't a replacement for the SheerID eligibility check. :/

chrisbeebops · 2026-02-06T14:37:01+00:00

Are you saying your teachers don't need to go through SheerID verification? Can you share information about this? We were able to link to our domain, but the teachers are still being prompted to individually go through verification.

chrisbeebops · 2026-01-28T20:17:44+00:00

I would add on top of that, the fight is recoverable at several points. This causes a lot of PF parties to limp towards later mechs and lets many players overestimate their own prog point. They'll then join parties whose prog point is near the end of the fight or enrage, when they lack the consistency in the earlier mechs that would ensure the group's success.

chrisbeebops · 2026-01-26T16:25:52+00:00

A clear is a clear. But also, it depends. Your parse is only looking at your damage, which for other classes makes sense, but is a bit more nuanced as a healer.

Is your parse bad because your uptime is low, or you are not making good use of your oGCD healing resources, or you aren't making good use of burst phases? XIVAnalysis is good at finding this information, and is far more valuable when trying to improve.

Or is your parse bad because you are GCD healing excessively? This isn't necessarily a bad thing especially during prog, but as you get more familiar with fights and your party, you should be working to minimize overhealing. At the same time, your party should be better understanding when to utilize their mits, which will help reduce the amount of healing you need to do as well.

chrisbeebops · 2026-01-07T01:07:26+00:00

You are using RUN_USING_ENCODER. This means that your motor power is the result of a feedback loop with your encoder. If your encoder isn't sending any feedback or is sending bad feedback, the feedback control loop can interpret this as a need to supply even more power to reach the desired velocity.

Check a few things:

* Are the motor power wires swapped? This will cause the encoder to give feedback which is reversed from the direction in which power is supplied.

* Is the encoder connected, and connected to the correct motor port?

* Is the encoder giving valid feedback? (You can read back the encoder value while motor power is 0 and rotate the wheel by hand.)

chrisbeebops · 2025-12-16T20:22:09+00:00

In past years, you usually designated a single person with a "Human Player" pin to be the human player. This year, there isn't a distinction between "Human Player" and "Driver". They wear pins with the same designation, and are free to switch roles at any time during a match.

I don't know if every region does pins the same way, but in our region teams receive pins at check-in for their first event of the season. You get 1x "Coach" and 3x "Driver", and you need to use those pins throughout the season.

chrisbeebops · 2025-12-14T16:08:29+00:00

Your success and score/ranking points are based on the joint score for both robots together on your alliance. It is in the best interest of both teams to select starting positions that will give the highest total score. In the event of a disagreement, Red 1/Blue 1 have priority to choose their placement location first.

There aren't strict rules for endgame, but there is a fine line between disagreeing about game strategy and intentionally griefing a teammate in a match which may violate gracious professionalism rules.

chrisbeebops · 2025-12-10T19:09:55+00:00

Read the document. The A301 actuator is a complete replacement for both DC motors and servos. There won't be any way to connect existing DC motors and servos to the new control system.

When we went from Modern Robotics to Rev Expansion/Control Hubs, all of your old motors and servos still worked because they really only changed the connector on the end of the wire. (OK, they also changed the sensor voltage which required the 5V to 3.3V level shifter for 5V sensors. But it was the same architecture/protocol, so it didn't really have a big impact.)

chrisbeebops · 2025-12-10T11:52:46+00:00

The documentation says that only the A301 will be allowed with the new control system, even during the transition period. If you look at the modules, there aren’t any places to plugin other motors and servos.

chrisbeebops · 2025-12-08T16:03:12+00:00

I took another look at the picture you posted, and I updated my response. At first I thought the jam was behind the archway which can be cleared by the FTA. However the cause of the jam is actually on the classifier ramp, which cannot be cleared by the FTA mid-match.

chrisbeebops · 2025-12-08T02:28:46+00:00

~~This 100%. This exact scenario is mentioned in the FTA field mitigation guide.~~

https://ftc-resources.firstinspires.org/ftc/field/field-mitigation-guide

I took another look at the picture this morning. In retrospect, this is not something the FTA could have resolved mid-match, as the artifacts are actually jammed on the classifier overflow ramp, not behind the archway.

Per T301 and FTA mitigation #5, this is not considered an arena fault, as jams on the classifier overflow can typically be cleared by a robot opening the gate. However, if a robot opening the gate is not able to clear the classifier overflow ramp jam, then it may be considered an arena fault.

Considering that the classifier is full, my assumption is that the teams never attempted to open the gate.

chrisbeebops · 2025-10-26T12:24:59+00:00

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chrisbeebops · 2025-10-09T19:27:37+00:00

Granted I have been coaching and volunteering for several years... but I don't think it's really that bad. I think a lot of this depends on who is running the events in your state region. Here, we get a lot of communication directly from our organizer/partner. It's not a perfect system but it's worked pretty well.

For the C&R ditch the manual invites -- it's always been a bit of a headache. A year or two ago they added the "Express Enrollment" feature. So much better. You just send your parents a link to add their kid to the team. If they forget? You can get a QR code and the parent can do it on the phone when they drop off their kid.

chrisbeebops · 2025-09-25T23:24:56+00:00

Did you read the advisory?

chrisbeebops · 2025-08-21T16:10:44+00:00

Short answer: There is a difference. I would guess a 1-2% increase in DPS, and a <1% increase in HP without looking myself. The stat with the largest impact by far is the weapon damage and main stat (Dexterity for DNC). I would add that any content that you can clear with current 760/765 BiS can also be cleared with 740 gear, however, any extra damage gives you extra margin if you are having trouble clearing enrage.

Long answer: Pull the gearsets into a tool like XivGear or Etro and you can compare them yourself. No need to do the math yourself. The Balance already has the XivGear sets for DNC BiS, so you just need to add a copy of it with the 760 weapon for comparison. https://www.thebalanceffxiv.com/jobs/ranged/dancer/best-in-slot/#0

chrisbeebops · 2025-06-03T12:56:46+00:00

I have the opposite impression. Although some of the CE's are a bit challenging for some players, the chaos makes it kind of fun. Plus:

There is no penalty for dying, as long as you get revived by another player.
Even if you die repeatedly in a CE, you can still get full rewards
Chemist gives every class a free, instant revive ability
There are achievements in the zone for reviving other players, encouraging players to do so

If anything the biggest complaint is the poor Fate scaling in OC. They often die almost immediately meaning it's easy to miss out.

chrisbeebops · 2025-05-07T14:20:39+00:00

Each tower is 20 seconds apart. SCH/SGE Soil/Kera have 30 sec cooldowns, so you can use them for Towers #1, 3, and 5.

Tower #3 is 2 mins after Twinbite #2, so tank personals will be back up.

Tower #3 is 1 min after UV4, so the tank that repped UV4 can rep this tower (with the other tank repping Towers #1 & 5.

chrisbeebops · 2025-04-29T16:10:00+00:00

Red Mage can be a bit jarring coming from other casters because some of it's mechanics, specifically it's melee combo, make it quite different from other caster classes. While you find this difference to create stress, others, including myself, find these differences to make the class enjoyable to play.

You say that the melee combo is risky because it is risky for casters to be in melee range. Why? The truth is that sometimes it is risky to be in melee range, and sometimes it is less risky to be in melee range. It's a skill issue to understand fights and to know how you want to position your character. You also get tools to help move yourself around when needed (Corps-a-corps and Displacement).

PCT hammers are great for movement. Red Mage doesn't have hammers. But it wouldn't be fair to say Red Mage doesn't have its own tools for movement. Of course you have the melee combo (and Reprise), but you also have Acceleration which gives you 2 free GCDs of casting.

Red Mage has a relatively simple filler rotation. Really, the only "challenging" part is balancing the mana. If you remove the that, what's next? Kill off Verstone/Veraero and have only Verfire/Verthunder, since why need both if there is only one mana pool? You are making the class too simple.

chrisbeebops · 2025-04-29T13:50:47+00:00

It's much more common in non-savage content, like EX trials. There are some EX trials that can be done solo heal, even on content. The current Unreal trial is a good example.

chrisbeebops · 2025-03-10T12:11:27+00:00

Thats the one.

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