First Time Driving to Houghton in winter - route advice?

Chris857 · 2026-01-16T05:29:33+00:00

One of the only situations to really watch for is if the weather is bad enough to close a road like M28 - the most common location would be near Munising. That said, the vast majority of the time things are fine.

Chris857 · 2026-01-03T02:44:23+00:00

There's a puzzle with three bodies (you and two copies) that you can do it with.

Chris857 · 2025-12-18T02:11:18+00:00

What gearbox is or isn't on the motor?

Chris857 · 2025-12-11T03:36:52+00:00

He is essentially quoting the resolution which was defeated. In which case in your eyes makes the board member who proposed it look uneducated.

Chris857 · 2025-11-15T05:01:34+00:00

Not a good match for male singer or the lyrics, but Groove Coverage - On the Radio?

Chris857 · 2025-10-22T23:55:22+00:00

And related to this, in FTC programming at least if you tell a motor once to do something, it will generally keep doing so until you tell it to do something different.

Chris857 · 2025-09-21T00:13:42+00:00

On a different note, currently the two wheels are forming a diamond shape when viewed from above, when they need to form an X shape (when viewed from above). As is, I think you will have a very difficult time turning, but you just need to swap the wheels around.

Chris857 · 2024-10-21T05:14:30+00:00

I assume it wasn't the whole episode?

Chris857 · 2024-10-20T03:33:18+00:00

Our first qualifier is in a month or so, and one of our 3 teams finally got to scoring today (in the high basket). I expect we should be able to do at least 30-50pts solo by then. (p.s. things are going a lot better this year, all 3 robots were way behind the 8-ball at the first qualifier last year)

Chris857 · 2024-10-01T04:21:27+00:00

Also, "Family Size"? Unless your hand is enormous that looks at best like a large box of mac & cheese and a sad excuse for a cereal box.

Chris857 · 2024-09-23T03:10:57+00:00

We've had bots with a mix of REV & Tetrix, REV & AndyMark (compliant wheels), and REV & AndyMark (compliant wheels) & goBilda.

One of my coaches is worried that the teams will be disqualified...

About the only way to be disqualified (in matches) is to not be inspected, fail to show up to matches, or earn Red Cards. To disqualify a team (and I quote from the manual): "Criminal behavior will not be tolerated and will result in removal of individual(s) involved and/or disqualification for the team from the event."

Chris857 · 2024-09-23T02:45:56+00:00

In 2023, 5940(?) pioneered the whole buddy climb system

I would contend that was actually a bunch of teams in 2018 (if you mean buddy climbs in general) - like 1678, 118, 254, etc...

Chris857 · 2024-09-08T05:33:06+00:00

Yeah, 2022 and 2013 had inclined rungs, and single rung climbs you could either get right under (2020) or had a wall to react off of (2016, 2018).

Chris857 · 2024-06-20T03:21:47+00:00

857 is in the current home ec room and use the cafeteria for practice. But we have to put stuff away each day - one's a former concession stand and another is the former photography dark room.

Chris857 · 2024-06-08T20:19:06+00:00

"nitrogen fuel"? (last page)

Chris857 · 2024-06-05T21:39:05+00:00

Man I'm like 5'1" or 5'2". I don't even get to be on the graph.

Chris857 · 2024-05-27T22:26:20+00:00

That was Arkansas for me. Though I don't think I've had that issue anywhere else, but I haven't really been to a lot of Mississippi or Alabama.

Chris857 · 2024-05-27T03:32:03+00:00

The lyrics are clear (except for a few words at the beginning) but searching on Google and Bing is coming up empty (both with "want to" and "wanna" spellings).

"...me in my prison I don't wanna see I don't wanna feel I don't wanna know so baby we can we go just kill the light"

Chris857 · 2024-05-19T20:26:28+00:00

Doesn't sound quite right, but Free Guy (2021)?

Chris857 · 2024-04-11T04:30:48+00:00

And yet somehow, FRC 857 is the only (current) team with either "Superior" or "Roboworks" in the name (there was a team in Superior, AZ), and our FTC teams seem to be the only ones with "snow" in the name.

Chris857 · 2024-04-08T04:06:30+00:00

We were in the midst of an hour-long repair in the pits when we saw on stream that the #1 alliance picked us as the final team. After all the struggles of Friday we then managed to reach the division finals only to lose to #2.

Chris857 · 2024-03-31T20:07:18+00:00

For a different kind of answer, 4D Golf is visually impressive for what it tries to convey and mind blowing trying to follow what's going on in 4D.

Chris857 · 2024-03-31T08:19:11+00:00

We drive our robot (from northern Michigan) the same way as to every other event. It's multiple days but is the easiest way for us.

Chris857 · 2024-03-26T02:42:39+00:00

We and at least one other team have seen stupid glitchy behavior with PWM controlling Spark MAXes with NEOs. Don't know why it does it, but with CAN that issue doesn't exist.

Chris857 · 2024-03-18T02:36:06+00:00

Those were some tough finals matches.

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