Points! Points! Points! Where are the points? What are the
limits? Are there unlimited points opportunities? o Like lifting in
Bowled Over!
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Time How long will things take? Are there low/no value goals
that will simply waste time?
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Other Robots How easy will defense be? o Rack was easy to
defend in Ring It Up! How many robots does it take to accomplish a
given task? o Lifting in Ring It Up!
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Your Robot What qualities should a robot have, lets take
drivetrain for example o Ring It Up! - powerful, hold/take a
position in front of rack Scoring opportunities space constrained o
Bowled Over - agility, speed more important than power Scoring
opportunities all over the field o Get Over It! - drive train that
could navigate all the terrain.
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Design Principles and Strategies
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KISS o Keep It Super Simple Tool Design First Leapfrog
Development o Never go backwards Repetitive Testing o Repetitive
Testing Competitive Development
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Heartbeat Using a twitching servo before both autonomous and
tele-op as a heartbeat A proactive robot health check so you can
know when to call for a power cycle Last controller on the daisy
chain We did this last year, but the rules have changed so we cant
do this What can we do instead?
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Heartbeat
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Checklists Checklist on body of robot for field setup Checklist
in pit for between match maintenance
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Checklists
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Anderson Powerpoles Tamiya vs Powerpole Powerpole is a
registered trademark of Anderson Power Products
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Samantha Bracket
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Grounding Chains Build your own grounding chains
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Grounding Ground the frame Connect the frame Plastic acts as a
capacitor Ground your plastic Ground your electronics
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Build a Static Detector Battery Case -$1.15 Resistor - $0.03
Capacitor - $0.07 Switch - $0.25 Transistor - $0.33 Connecters
$0.26 LED $0.01 Total - $2.10
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Electronics Testing
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Useful Websites Official Game Forum o
http://ftcforum.usfirst.org/forum.php
http://ftcforum.usfirst.org/forum.php Chief Delphi o
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=146
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=146 ROBOTC
Forum o http://www.robotc.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=52
http://www.robotc.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=52 Xander Soldaat o
http://botbench.com/blog/ http://botbench.com/blog/ Cougar Robotics
o http://cougarrobot.com/ http://cougarrobot.com/ Landroids o
http://landroids.org http://landroids.org
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More Useful Websites Hitechnic o http://www.hitechnic.com/
http://www.hitechnic.com/ Lego Education o
http://www.legoeducation.us/ http://www.legoeducation.us/ Digikey o
http://www.digikey.com/ http://www.digikey.com/ McMaster-Carr o
http://www.mcmaster.com/# http://www.mcmaster.com/#