Forums: Last 35 Posts

Forums: Last 35 Posts http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ Forums: Last 35 Posts en Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:23:40 +0000 pneumaticsguy on "SUMMMMMMMER" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=24#post-143 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:01:53 +0000 pneumaticsguy 143@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ summer is too hot other than that its good Benny on "SUMMMMMMMER" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=24#post-142 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:53:33 +0000 Benny 142@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ hey guys its ben looks like its summer now with nice hot weather and no school EvanMorrison on "Intuitive Surgical Tour Pictures!" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=23#post-141 Sun, 18 May 2008 19:22:35 +0000 EvanMorrison 141@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ Pictures from the May 2008 Intuitive Surgical Open House are now up on the Picasa web album at picasaweb.google.com/971.FIRST ROY on "Robot photo's" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=22#post-140 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:02:23 +0000 ROY 140@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ All, Here are some photos of the Spartan Robotic Team in action. They did a excellent job this year designing and building a very complex robot. They made it to the quarter finals and lost in that round by a penalty. <a href="http://www.bmf.com/frc%20971/default.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.bmf.com/frc%20971/default.htm</a> Real proud of the team Roy Dumlao <a href="mailto:roy@bmf.com">roy@bmf.com</a> Berger Manufacturing Phone 408--232-3157 AM Phone 408-232-3123 PM Cell 408-892-1241 admin on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18&page=2#post-139 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:45:17 +0000 admin 139@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ Awesome! Thanks, Nader. Nader on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18&page=2#post-138 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:18:26 +0000 Nader 138@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ Appears to look fine in <a href="http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/3397/spartanroboticsnh7.png">Firefox 3 Beta 4</a> as well. admin on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18&page=2#post-137 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:10:21 +0000 admin 137@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ I tested it. It pretty much works in IE 8. There's just one tiny rendering issue with the search button. admin on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18&page=2#post-136 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:40:23 +0000 admin 136@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ I've just tweaked, tested, and modified the new site. It (just the homepage, for now) now works in: <ul> <li>Internet Explorer 6</li> <li>Internet Explorer 7</li> <li>Safari 3.0.4</li> <li>Mozilla Firefox 2</li> <li>Opera 9.50</li> </ul> I'm going to see now if it works in IE 8 beta 1. ITGuy on "some lessons learned today in robot design" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=7#post-135 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:26:47 +0000 ITGuy 135@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ *If you give Hershal a receipt, he will lose it *Make copies of receipts admin on "kPicasa Usage" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=21#post-134 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:11:18 +0000 admin 134@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ This is a tutorial on how to add Picasa galleries to the new beta Spartan Robotics site. I've modded kPicasa (it shows up as kPicasa Plus in the plugins screen of the admin interface) to pull in specific years. Here's how you use it: If you want to display the entire gallery, with all of the years, you type the following into a post or page (it should be the only content on the page: <code>KPICASA_GALLERY</code> If you want to display a specific year of albums (it will find that year's photos automatically, no manual gallery names needed): <code>KPICASA_GALLERY(year: 2008)</code> If you want to display just one album: <code>KPICASA_GALLERY(SVR2008)</code> ...Or a couple of specific albums: <code>KPICASA_GALLERY(SVR2008,SiliconValleyRegionalFriday)</code> admin on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18#post-132 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:19:17 +0000 admin 132@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ It's installed. I've posted the location of the Wordpress install in a thread in Spartan Robotics (Private Forum). admin on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18#post-131 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:06:33 +0000 admin 131@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ I'm installing it now... admin on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18#post-130 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:59:53 +0000 admin 130@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ Wordpress 2.5 has been finally released as a stable version! admin on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18#post-129 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:32:03 +0000 admin 129@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ YAY! Wordpress 2.5 Release Candidate 2 was just released. In other news, Matt Mullenweg (the lead developer of Wordpress) just made a screencast that shows off a few new features in Wordpress 2.5. You can see it at: <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-rc2/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-rc2/</a> admin on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18#post-128 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:16:54 +0000 admin 128@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ Here's a quick sample of the color scheme that I was thinking about using. (The swatch is available <a href="http://www.colorjack.com/?swatch=FFD54C,D9CCA2,4C6AFF,A2ABD9,FF914C,D9B7A2">here</a>). Note: these are the accents, not the primary colors of the site. ITGuy on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18#post-127 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:35:11 +0000 ITGuy 127@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ Looks good. admin on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18#post-126 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:01:41 +0000 admin 126@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ I've figured out what the site is going to look like. I'll have a mockup in ~2 weeks. I'm thinking of using the following MooTools plugin the enhance the photo gallery (it's pretty awesome): <a href="http://www.electricprism.com/aeron/slideshow/2/" rel="nofollow">http://www.electricprism.com/aeron/slideshow/2/</a> ITGuy on "Lessons learned for next year" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=19#post-125 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:23:24 +0000 ITGuy 125@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ This forum is supposed to have separate topics for different things to improve upon. bumpergal on "Lessons learned for next year" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=19#post-123 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:05:35 +0000 bumpergal 123@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ I think it would be useful to have a specific topic started for posting things that we learned this year that we can use for next year. This would include things that we learned from the competition - things that went right as well as things that we could improve on. That way members could add things as they think of them so that when you have future meetings, all of these ideas will be in one place. This could include everything from robot design to fundraising and recruiting. ITGuy on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18#post-122 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:08:41 +0000 ITGuy 122@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ Que buena idea! admin on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18#post-121 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:06:50 +0000 admin 121@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ Don't worry, it will. Maybe next weekend (I'm booked this weekend) I can create a next gen site folder (aka not the main, public folder) and load up the newest version of WordPress 2.5 (whether the final version is out or not) and start developing. After we think we're done, we can put a sticky on the forums and a bar at the top of the site that says that there is a new beta site. We could easily take suggestions using the comments system that is built-in to WordPress. We could also put up a poll on the forums, too. ITGuy on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18#post-120 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:20:41 +0000 ITGuy 120@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ If it doesn't work, make it work. admin on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18#post-119 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:43:44 +0000 admin 119@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ <no-sarcasm>Nope.</no-sarcasm> ITGuy on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18#post-118 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:21:43 +0000 ITGuy 118@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ Do I sense some uncertainty? admin on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18#post-117 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:14:30 +0000 admin 117@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ It will... ITGuy on "some lessons learned today in robot design" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=7#post-116 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:02:42 +0000 ITGuy 116@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ *Elevators can actually work - they work pretty well ITGuy on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18#post-115 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:56:53 +0000 ITGuy 115@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ Just make sure the WordPress works. admin on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18#post-114 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:07:32 +0000 admin 114@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ You can see the post about the RC1 release of 2.5 at: <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/25-sneak-peek/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/25-sneak-peek/</a> admin on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18#post-113 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:04:06 +0000 admin 113@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ I just checked around on the blogs and <a href="http://wp-community.org/2008/03/18/episode-38/">one said</a>, "WordPress 2.5 wasn’t released last week as we expected, and don’t expect it for several weeks." *sigh* admin on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18#post-112 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:00:30 +0000 admin 112@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ Wordpress has built-in search that works pretty well. You can see my site for an example (<a href="http://www.speedbreeze.com/">http://www.speedbreeze.com</a>). I plan to load Wordpress as soon as 2.5 comes out, but they have not set an official date yet. It'll probably be a week or two. As for the wiki, I've been thinking of skinning it to match the rest of Spartan Robotics (or the new theme for next year for Spartan Robotics) and making it public. I'm not sure whether to or not, though. ITGuy on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18#post-111 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:29:17 +0000 ITGuy 111@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ The wiki does actually contain useful information that was proposed by previous team members, I think. The stuff they posted is really worth considering. ITGuy on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18#post-110 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:27:36 +0000 ITGuy 110@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ Also, it is possible to have a search function for the website? ITGuy on "New Computers" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=16#post-109 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:27:10 +0000 ITGuy 109@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ Our computers should be ready in approximately one week. ITGuy on "Next Year's Site" http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=18#post-108 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:24:03 +0000 ITGuy 108@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ When the final version comes out, go ahead and install it if it's working like it should be.