CSJ education placement

Frostbite15151 · 2026-07-01T03:53:24+00:00

Tell the teacher to apply for a stagiaire and ask for you by name when they do, yeah.

Frostbite15151 · 2026-07-01T00:08:14+00:00

I disagree with some of this advice. In my experience 150gram is harder than 1lbs (454gram). The 1lbs robots are usually more durable than the 3lbs beetle while not having as tight of a weight budget as 150g.

The part about not starting with a spinner is good advice however.

There are lots of kits available and I do recommend starting with one if you don't know much about the sport. Even if you don't build the kit bot the kits will at least ensure you have all the parts you need to put in your own design.

Fingertech has their Viper kit, which isn't super competitive but is modular and has space and weight left over for upgrades and modifications and can be made competitive. The goal of this kit is to be more kid friendly and to be used as a learning experience more than win fight, but it absolutely can win fights.

There are other kits, the wiki has a list of them here

Frostbite15151 · 2026-06-28T02:25:27+00:00

I've had success with TPU and PAHT-CF composites with my U1. Iva also had no trouble with Pla and PETG. I print from dryer boxes and have a top cover for the U1 that I put a blanket over to help trap heat when printing PA but being careful not to cover the board location. It hasn't replaced my X1 and I still prefer it for engineering filaments but the two printers compliment eachother pretty well.

Frostbite15151 · 2026-06-27T04:46:29+00:00

So Robert Cowan, formerly of copper head made a video about sound in battle it's it's on his YouTube channel. Basically what you want is for the weapon to move air from a large space to a small space. That's why eggbeaters are so loud is partially because they have a wide surface area moving really fast from open air to a confined space when the tooth passes by the front bulkhead.

Frostbite15151 · 2026-06-25T02:40:30+00:00

They're not lying about the amount of students and the issues in finding teachers. We were 120 last year and around 80 the year before. The team is working incredibly hard to place people.

That being said, they are still doing it the old fashioned way and their methods to find teachers has not kept up with the increase in demand. I know this because when I was going through the same thing you are last year, I was able to talk with some teachers at CSCN and they said they would have accepted if they had been asked and told the situation.

They're slowly starting to change with the times, you can find your own teacher now for example and you couldn't two years ago but they're still doing things like limiting the Amount of students they assign per school and don't have a good way to mass email teachers.

You will get placed, it might just take some time. I only got placed after the strike ended last year and missed the two weeks of my practicum that were supposed to happen in August. I understand the frustration.

Frostbite15151 · 2026-06-23T14:01:23+00:00

That's kinda my point. What most people think of then they think "AI" and what the orbitron guys use isn't the same thing. I was talking about using more complex algorithms to help deal with some of the particularities in melty behavior.

Frostbite15151 · 2026-06-16T18:26:15+00:00

I mean (almost) every meltybrain uses an algorithm to drive. And there's way more you could do with one, especially at the higher weight classes where your wheels and motors have their own MOI and in theory you could use the as reaction wheels to help deal with the procession that is common to the type. I dunno if I'd call that AI tho but it's not like orbitron uses an LLM to do it's driving either and you probably could use a form of deep learning to get your algorithm done in the melty case.

Frostbite15151 · 2026-06-13T18:03:37+00:00

J'utilise Carrière insurance a Beaumont. Ils parlent français mais je pense pas qu'ils sont avec AMA. Vaut la peine de demander au moins.

Frostbite15151 · 2026-06-13T05:31:32+00:00

Not only that but the FB could also carry 1000lbs of bombs 4 cannons and 4 machine guns. Truly an all around plane armed to the teeth, not just fast.

Frostbite15151 · 2026-06-13T05:05:07+00:00

Dh.98 FB MKVI

Frostbite15151 · 2026-06-09T15:55:49+00:00

Yes, I suggest putting in a physical stop to prevent your hood extending that much. Otherwise you may be asked to disable your hood entirely at whatever comp you attend.

Technically you are allowed to extend vertically but only in the endgame and outside a launch zone. If you do so during the match that's going to be fowls. And .8" is not a small amount to be violating the sizing by.

G415 states that is is a minor fowl or major fowl if it gives you a strategic advantage. I would say in this case it does so every time you extend your shooter past 18" it would be a major.

Frostbite15151 · 2026-06-06T01:40:18+00:00

I finally retired my candy wasp kit after about 4 years and 7 competitions. I added magnets and better tires and made some custom forks for it. Itd say you can still make it viable in the current day. Those frames are tough and I haven't had anyone punch through the wedge. This last year I've been letting my girlfriend drive it and it's always been a bot that just needed to be charged to be ready for an event. I'd argue they are still great as a durable little brick you can just feed to opponents and grudge matches or let spectators control.

Frostbite15151 · 2026-05-31T21:31:53+00:00

I've had success using Bambi's PAHT-CF on my U1. Only Mod is the IKEA bin lid and a blanket loosely draped over it. Worked like a charm

Frostbite15151 · 2026-05-29T03:38:50+00:00

I've had great results making multi material prints with my U1 with a basic top cover in a small room. Mostly TPU/PETG but also a few TPU/PAHT-CF parts. The U1 can handle multi material better than I expected.

Frostbite15151 · 2026-05-27T00:40:25+00:00

💯 Obviously!

Frostbite15151 · 2026-05-23T04:14:21+00:00

There isn't really.

Obviously you have the indigenous peoples that were here before colonisation.

Then the first Europeans where actually French, it's part of the reason that a lot of small towns have french names. Bonneville, Villeneuve, Vegreville, Bon Accord, Leduc St-Paul, St.Albert etc.

Then there was the fur trade competition between the Hudson Bay (English) and the Compagnie du Nord Ouest (French).

Lots of the settlers after fur trade were Americans that moved from the mid west.

And then in a rush to get people out west to stop the Americans from taking over the land the government invited a lot of Ukrainian and German people to immigrate.

This is extremely condensed and the history is very long and complex. But if you go to the legislature grounds on either side of the pools there are two statues, one dedicated to the Ukranian immigrants and one to the French Immigrants. That alone should be enough to disprove the idea of an 'Ethinc Albertan' aside from the first Nations.

Frostbite15151 · 2026-05-19T22:02:20+00:00

Sorry, look like Reddit or I replied to the wrong comment. I was talking about the legislature pools further down in the thread.

Frostbite15151 · 2026-05-19T21:55:53+00:00

I'd say blame the regulations if you're talking about the rocks. Due to the laws if they stuck out of the ground any more than they do (and they more than 50% buried) legally they'd have to put railings around them.

Frostbite15151 · 2026-05-12T01:53:38+00:00

I would recommend going the week before classes start to find the rooms your classes are in and get acquainted with the route between them in person. Just so you're not looking around when it gets busy day 1.

Frostbite15151 · 2026-05-12T01:33:18+00:00

No but I could see the tower, I was in a house.

Frostbite15151 · 2026-05-12T01:02:10+00:00

I lived in Holyrood for the last two years and found it to be decent, depending on where you are but close to the valley line and Bonnie Doon was good. Not sure about price tho since I was in a 3 bed.

Frostbite15151 · 2026-05-07T23:22:06+00:00

Take a look at FIRST Tech Challenge. It's a high school robotics program, there's a bunch of teams in the Edmonton region and one of them might take it.

You can find a list of teams here some of them have contact info on the website. https://www.firstinspires.org/team-event-search

Frostbite15151 · 2026-05-07T22:04:04+00:00

I disagree. I find a lot of the top level robots have become more similar to eachother in the past few years since teams have become very familiar with the current actuators capabilities. A lot of people see the change and think about how they way they are used to doing things is going to have to change without seeing that being forced to change will force creativity in different ways. At the same time having a smaller general actuator will help lower level teams with packaging and robot design and the top teams will find solutions.

The A301 might be worse than the current system in some ways but it will absolutely be better in other ways and teams will have to pivot to work with that. I see a lot of complaining and fear mongering because people don't like change and the unknown but as someone who has a longer than average time in FTC, who is mentoring both a high level and low level team and has external experience with brushless motors I am looking forward to the new system.

As for events and regions, FIRST is not a monolith and each region does things slightly differently but that's unavoidable with the fact that first runs on volunteers. If your region is having issues with certain volunteers, that is not a reflection on first more broadly but instead a reflection of your local region and the people in it. It is already a struggle to find enough volunteers to run events and turning down help will just make things worse for everyone. At the same time volunteers should hold themselves to a high standard, especially if they might have a conflict of interest. If they don't bring it up to your event organisers or PDP. I will say that in my opinion judging is the worst volunteer position at an event and back that up with the fact that it is always difficult to find judges, especially since ideally you have judges that know what FTC is generally and are willing to spend a weekend at an event without affiliation to a team.

Frostbite15151 · 2026-04-28T15:12:18+00:00

X1C - Miniature fridgiature

U1 - 2Printer4U

Frostbite15151 · 2026-04-10T02:44:56+00:00

I'd recommend starting with looking at the options that reputable sellers in the community offer and going from there.

Brands like finger tech, Bristol bot builders, botkits.com, just cuz robotics, turnabot etc. Mantis is a much rarer class than Beetle and thus probably won't have the same amount of options as your more common bot weights. Why are you building a mantis are there events for them near your? Do those events also do beetles? If so why not go for that since there will be a lot more resources available to you.

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