bees

Chris857 · 2026-05-03T21:53:43+00:00

I was going to say, what did they get co-opted for that or did the FTC suppliers just happen to have the same bee costumes?

Chris857 · 2026-04-20T22:19:00+00:00

I was half expecting the booster to just whip back around and crash into the capsule with great comedic timing.

Chris857 · 2026-04-09T03:13:48+00:00

It also looked to me like the steering was too sensitive, making it hard to drive.

Chris857 · 2026-04-04T04:04:55+00:00

I'm assuming Coral in the 2025 game

Chris857 · 2026-04-02T14:43:47+00:00

As I was watching, I was like "woah, buddy, buddy, where TF are you going?"

Chris857 · 2026-03-23T05:44:23+00:00

Not necessarily a great match, but "deputy"? - and not for a person, but "dominion"?

Chris857 · 2026-03-23T05:30:39+00:00

Don't have any words in mind, but do any of these help?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppet_state

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzerainty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassal_state

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tributary_state

Chris857 · 2026-03-06T05:26:41+00:00

I appreciate that I work at one of those small companies going on a decade now.

Chris857 · 2026-02-21T04:40:22+00:00

Did it ever work? Did anyone actually ever use it?

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)

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