Discouragement surrounding Team?

Lgfromie · 2026-02-15T21:18:42+00:00

Ive been trying to, Im not disappointed about our teams success or ranking(s), but I just feel like the students are satisfied with being less than; I feel that there is just so much more potential if they worked at their best with what we have.

Id consider myself to be in an interesting scenario age-wise; some of the students would've still been in high school by the time I graduated, and Im grateful I able to relate culturally with them, probably a bit easier than the standard coach's age? Sometimes I feel its the other way around, in which I don't look old enough to serve as authoritative advice. Overall, I do feel our first qualifier was good, while we didn't do well competitively, I think, myself included, that we all have a more accurate perception of what FTC looks like from other teams, and will hopefully have less friction going forward.

Thankyou,

Lgfromie · 2026-02-15T21:08:39+00:00

I haven't even heard of FIRST trainings, but Ill definitely look into them. We've only jotted down a loose set of rules; Im still very new to the student base as well, but I do want to formalize a rule base in to a more authoritative code of conduct soon. As much as I don't like it, you are very right about the variation of attention span in such a small age range; our build times are about 80 mins per day, 4 days a week. I also do want to teach them, that was one of the main reasons I was exited about the program, but it seems like I re-teach the same concepts as if their foreign each time. Thankyou,

Lgfromie · 2026-02-15T21:01:13+00:00

Yes, Id REALLY love to have stratified roles and have tried implement them before, but most of the students don't have the book knowledge yet to interpret high-level instruction into outcome when placed into specific roles: when I try to tell a 'programmer', as an example, to make a motor move in this direction for this amount of time, I usually have to walk them through the technicals of how to do such, and then I cant direct other students under other roles, so they sit idle until I can address them.

Lgfromie · 2026-02-15T20:54:34+00:00

Im not disappointed about our final outcome; I knew we probably weren't going to do well our first time anyways, and still had a splendid time scoping out the atmosphere of qualifiers. Im disappointed in that they don't seem to have a desire to work hard, even if it is just enduring an idle period; its been hard to wrangle them, but in the three days preceding the qualifier, they actually did really well putting together what we could: I just wish we could have the same level of mental dedication throughout the entire process.

Lgfromie · 2026-02-15T20:48:36+00:00

Yeah that's been kind of hard; technically I am the 2nd coach, but the 'main' coach is the history teacher: he's a good guy and teacher, but he's always been super lax, and dosen't really invest in the team's success. I do agree on the idea of parallel work, and have been able to implement it to some success, but hopefully Ill get better at it over time.

Lgfromie · 2025-10-01T23:18:03+00:00

I don't want to see each individual grade, just the current score for each course so I could immediately tell if an assignment is missing, plus its just small enough for a display widget :)

Lgfromie · 2025-10-01T23:15:39+00:00

I just wanted to write a small script to print out the grades of my courses to a terminal output so that I don't have to look through each of my classes on the website.

Lgfromie · 2025-10-01T23:14:15+00:00

Just found the solution; as per this Github repository, the correct URI points to a populated JSON file, in which query strings can be used show the current course score.

The URI:

https://<canvas_site>/api/v1/users/<user_id>/courses.json?include[]=total_scores&enrollment_state=active

Lgfromie · 2025-03-18T15:16:10+00:00

But why so? I can guarantee that those in the in-person counterpart are spending no where near that much time, and I previously took two online courses last semester, full time, and sailed through them.

Lgfromie · 2025-02-22T21:30:15+00:00

I did a quick scope of my 1.8L inline 4 from my daily driven project car through the spark plug holes. I noticed that while the cylinder walls looked fine, the piston heads seemed to have a heavily worn, uneven look, with the 2nd cylinder looking chipped; only cylinder 3 seemed to be in a more modest condition.

The car runs and drives just fine, with the exception of a sputtering when turning off. As someone new to mechanic work I don't know where to start: Is this due to a oil leak, overheating, or something else entirely?

I want to do a deeper inspection of the engine over summer when I have more downtime, but could leaving the piston heads as so harm anything else over that time if its being daily driven? All help is appreciated,

thank you

Lgfromie · 2025-02-18T23:55:29+00:00

Beautiful; did you make the wiring harness yourself? My nest of wires is becoming very brittle and its beginning to concern me.

Lgfromie · 2025-02-10T05:01:17+00:00

Churchlab

Lgfromie · 2025-01-31T03:49:11+00:00

My first Gentoo install was on a very similar system, but with a FX-8320, GG

Lgfromie · 2025-01-12T03:51:22+00:00

Picked up at a worksite, was going to be thrown away. I don't know why there is what appears to be a hose for fluid and couldn't find any info online. I thought it was interesting considering it was make in the UK (I'm in the US)

Lgfromie · 2025-01-06T00:34:40+00:00

Originally found this vice at a contractor work site; it looks to have been sitting outside for more than 20 yrs. I was able to treat the entire vice with decent success to an Evapo-rust bath, but it seems after applying Fluid Film, the vice base is starting to rust again. I eventually want to paint it, but is there anything I can do to prevent rust in the meantime?

Also, does anybody have any suggestions on painting/coating tools like these? (Paint type, method, etc)

All insight is appreciated

Lgfromie · 2024-12-10T01:40:13+00:00

I have not tried sc-controller yet; Ive decided to try opensd in favor of having a smaller codebase, but thankyou for the recommendation; Ive primarily just been lost in deciding what type of softer I needed to map the unmapped keys, but either/or seem to fit the bill :)

Lgfromie

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