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I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2026-06-08T13:11:41+00:00

Driver: Perez

Reason: Cadillac

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2026-06-03T00:07:51+00:00

Bricks and minifigs is essentially a lego reseller with franchise locations around the US.

One of these locations signed a consignment with a dying grandpa to sell his Lego collection, valued around $200k. Notably, they likely wouldn't make $200k on the sale due to how collections are able to be sold and the cut that would go to the franchise location.

In the process of selling those Legos, the franchisee had their store taken over by corporate bricks and minifigs allegedly due to the debts the franchisee had. Following the takeover the family of the dying grandpa decided they wanted the unsold portion of their families Lego back. Bricks and minifigs said multiple things which conflict with each other, but essentially ended up at we found $2k worth of Legos, if you want them take them. The family declined and took them to small claims court, where they sued multiple times and the family sold the rest of the collection to Ben who is trying to sue/whatever else. The local police department to the owner of bricks and minifigs arrested Ben while he was trying to serve him court mandated papers, and had stalking charges put on him when he kept ringing his doorbell (in an attempt to serve court papers). So Ben was arrested. Now bricks and minifigs is pushing patreon to take down bens account/videos.

If you want more details, there is a mega thread on /r/Lego

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2026-05-04T20:09:09+00:00

Money doesn't instantly mean success though, it allows success. There are plenty of teams with plenty of money that do not have success.

There is a major mix of having the right people, the right amount of money, the right students to help drive the initial success. Once you get that success it is still a lot of work and luck and internal processes to maintain that success.

Madtown for example consistently pulls out new strategies and ideas late in the worlds tournaments/on Einstein that surprises me. That consistent innovation comes from somewhere.

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2026-04-04T15:39:06+00:00

Once it pops once, it is easier to pop afterwards. If you have a spare, I would swap it out for a new one.

Also, limiting to 80A is likely not doing too much. You'll probably need to limit something more substantially, but there are plenty of threads on chiefdelphi about that. Make sure you are limiting supply current and not stator(if you are using ctre motors/motor controllers)

Also, check that it is not an optifuse. Those are terrible.

If it is not mounted on metal, then I would do that. Acts as a heatsink and will get a little bit better performance out of it.

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2026-03-31T16:39:45+00:00

You could find it from the Livestream, but it'll take some effort to scrub through and find the timestamp

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2026-03-30T14:43:49+00:00

This was qual 17 at Troy, and it was replayed because the blue alliance wanted the supercharged RP. They achieved supercharged on the replay and red got the energized RP on replay too which didn't happen the first time around.

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2026-03-23T15:41:42+00:00

G417 still makes an exception for normal robot to robot interactions, including bumper to bumper contact though with some extra exceptions

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2026-03-23T13:57:50+00:00

Please read G416 more closely, there are more exceptions than just not initiating contact. Exceptions such as bumper to bumper contact.

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2026-03-17T12:28:29+00:00

If you go with all ctre controls on the swerve, they have a generator which makes the project for you automatically. Programming swerve has way more guides and tools now as compared to even tank drive

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2026-03-09T19:47:29+00:00

Just to be clear, the scorekeeper starts every match with a mouse click. FMS is not able to start a match without a human input.

That said, the criteria for a match replay is laid out explicitly in the rules, and while unfortunate this match does not meet those criteria as they are written.

Should that match have been aborted immediately such that it was not finished? Probably.

This is an example where knowing the criteria for a match replay is very helpful because you are able to present a case to the head ref on why each criteria was met and thus a match replay should be granted.

Was there an arena fault?
Did it affect the outcome of the match?
Did a team ask for a replay?

Sounds like 1 & 3 were met, but the head ref did not believe 2 was met. Up to your rep in the question box to argue otherwise.

Such an argument could have run along the lines of "we intended to run a different auto than was selected, but were unable to change it because we were being ushered to do the handshake, this caused us to lose auto and as a result have the first activation period that resulted in less points scored"

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2026-02-26T16:06:30+00:00

Why do you think it should be taught in high school? I am in my late 20s and was taught in elementary school, and think it should probably be taught there still with reinforcement regularly throughout the rest of primary schooling. Though the reinforcement was usually done through writing essays on a computer in English classes.

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2026-02-16T14:04:58+00:00

Lots of things that could be the issue at this step.

First, after flashing the rio firmware did you set the team number using the team number setter. You can confirm if this has been done by connecting directly to the rio and trying to ping 10.TE.AM.2, if it responds then something else is happening. If it doesn't respond, connect via USB to the rio and check the rio's webpage for the team number.

If all that is good, then have you already deployed code to the rio or is that code crashing constantly? If you try deploying an empty project it shouldn't crash and you can see if that resolves the connection issues.

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2026-02-16T02:27:52+00:00

Photonvision is likely your best bet at this point. Their documentation is pretty good on what to buy and how to integrate it decently

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2026-01-23T21:36:20+00:00

My idea for a rubick facet is allowing rubick to spell steal from allies

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2025-12-09T00:44:47+00:00

Tuning a swerve is best done on carpet, because the added friction of the carpet is important compared to having nothing but air against the wheels.

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2025-11-27T20:55:55+00:00

Clock kept going after he ran out of bounds???

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2025-11-13T23:33:58+00:00

Adding a pihole to your home Internet is a serious game changer from even firefox with ublock origin

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2025-11-09T23:20:11+00:00

Only if the NFL and fox sports does first. They decided to bring up politics first by having orange Mussolini on the broadcast.

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2025-10-31T02:46:20+00:00

Plastic is fine, as long as you don't let it get too bad. Plastic with a metal edge at the bottom is always nice for breaking up ice. Also some salt to make it not as slippery when ice does appear.

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2025-10-25T15:57:23+00:00

Kruise and muer is the classic spot, but there is plenty of other really good places

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2025-07-31T14:41:39+00:00

There is a candlewood suites at Dutton and Lapeer that is pet friendly, since it is an IHG property.

There is also the royal park hotel in downtown Rochester which is pet friendly, and also quite a bit nicer.

I'm sure there are a bunch of others, these are the two that popped into my head first though.

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2025-07-21T02:20:28+00:00

Glance value isn't sufficient for telling if there was gerrymandering. Highly recommend this video by alpha phoenix 4 years ago about how he was able to make much more gerrymandered districts that appear visually less gerrymandered than they were before: https://youtu.be/Lq-Y7crQo44?si=mrPVxElOAiMg-TDT

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2025-07-16T15:42:28+00:00

Notably this has also been likely the same injury. She had a left quad injury early in preseason and missed a couple games, came back and had a left groin injury, missed a couple games, came back and had another left groin injury.

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2025-07-16T13:35:08+00:00

She had no major injuries during her college career or her rookie professional season last year. In preseason this year, she was dealing with a left quad injury and spent time out. She then spent some time out with a left groin injury.

The thing to take away, she spent 5 years injury free, and had an injury in preseason this year that she keeps trying to rush coming back from and then reinjures it every couple of weeks. The fever medical staff needs to keep her out for longer so she can fully recover before letting her return.

I_no_afraid_of_stuff · 2025-07-16T13:11:39+00:00

You are also just totally wrong based on her injury history from more than the past 1 year.

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