http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ Just another bbPress community en Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:45:28 +0000 http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=39#post-165 Mon, 25 May 2009 01:21:38 +0000 DanielG 165@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ <p>What suggestions do people have for revamping the forum/website for next year? </p> http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=38#post-164 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:53:34 +0000 EvanMorrison 164@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ <p>Congratulations to 971, 2009 FIRST World Champions! You guys played amazingly well.</p> <p>-Evan </p> http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=37#post-163 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:21:06 +0000 ROY 163@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ <p>Congrats.</p> <p>You guys rocked this year</p> <p>Photos of the 2009 competition can be found at:</p> <p><a href="http://www.bmf.com/spartanrobotics/2009/default.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.bmf.com/spartanrobotics/2009/default.htm</a></p> <p>Roy </p> http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=36#post-162 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:39:01 +0000 EvanMorrison 162@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ <p>Congrats to the team for winning the 2009 Silicon Valley Regional. You guys did an excellent job out there. </p> http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=35#post-161 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:23:46 +0000 ROY 161@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ <p>Took a look at the photos and the robot is looking good. </p> <p>The hopper walls need to be at a slight angle so the balls wont get pinched together. Also if you put a spacer inside the hopper that would help the balls from pinching together.</p> <p>Can't wait to see the robot in action.</p> <p>Roy </p> http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=34#post-160 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:47:12 +0000 jwilde 160@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ <p>I really like both.</p> <p>Anybody have suggestions regarding this? </p> http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=34#post-159 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:11:25 +0000 ReefTrigger 159@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ <p>2 new logo things for the website...<br /> <a href="http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh147/Ronin478/Robotics/roboticslogo3_1.png" rel="nofollow">http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh147/Ronin478/Robotics/roboticslogo3_1.png</a><br /> <a href="http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh147/Ronin478/Robotics/roboticslogo3_2.png" rel="nofollow">http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh147/Ronin478/Robotics/roboticslogo3_2.png</a> </p> http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=33#post-158 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:53:51 +0000 jwilde 158@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ <p>The forum skin issue has been fixed. </p> http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=33#post-157 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:34:03 +0000 ReefTrigger 157@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ <p>Not in the right kind of format for addition to the site but would this be the kind of thing</p> <p><a href="http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh147/Ronin478/Robotics/roboticslogo2.png" rel="nofollow">http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh147/Ronin478/Robotics/roboticslogo2.png</a></p> <p>BTW the forum skin appears to have disappeared for me... </p> http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=31#post-156 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:43:21 +0000 jwilde 156@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ <p>I've made some tweaks to the CSS code for the site to add more whitespace. The logo should be easier to fit into the site.</p> <p>I also agree with what Evan said. We might also consider getting a more rounded font.</p> <p>Kepp up the good work. :) </p> http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=32#post-155 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:55:29 +0000 ROY 155@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ <p>Just a question.</p> <p>Are there any safety features built into the robot?</p> <p>Like a big red easily accessible main power cutoff switch. Flashing safety lights designating the robot motors are powered and will suckup balls. Safety signs were your fingers can be cut off?</p> <p>Roy </p> http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=31#post-154 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:55:44 +0000 EvanMorrison 154@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ <p>Looks good, the font is nice but the lower case T in robotics is hard to read, might want to consider using all upper case for both words. </p> http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=31#post-153 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:11:19 +0000 ReefTrigger 153@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ <p>Hey People,<br /> I managed to do a quick 5 min job on the logo with the font....<br /> <a href="http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh147/Ronin478/Robotics/Spartan_robotics_logo1.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh147/Ronin478/Robotics/Spartan_robotics_logo1.jpg</a><br /> wtf... I clicked .png in PS XD</p> <p>Btw I'm sick so I wont be at the meeting today... shoot me an email if you have suggestions etc... </p> http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=30#post-152 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:31:18 +0000 DanielG 152@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ <p>Competition manual is online at <a href="http://usfirst.org/community/frc/content.aspx?id=452" rel="nofollow">http://usfirst.org/community/frc/content.aspx?id=452</a> </p> http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=25#post-147 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:00:12 +0000 Jai 147@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ <p>The video about it at:<br /> <a href="http://first.wpi.edu/FRC/csmedia.html" rel="nofollow">http://first.wpi.edu/FRC/csmedia.html</a><br /> has a lot of useful information. The first video link is the part of the championships where they released, explained, and demoed the new control system. </p> http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=25#post-146 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:59:17 +0000 Jai 146@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ <p>The photo shown under technical specifications does show the robot using victors.<br /> This new 802.11 control technology looks interesting. All of our old radios won't work with this new technology, according to what I see. Hopefully downloading the programming can be done by a wired connection, since wireless + our Linux laptops can be a challenge. </p> http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=25#post-145 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:33:13 +0000 EvanMorrison 145@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ <p>There's also a host of information about the new system available at <a href="http://first.wpi.edu/FRC/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://first.wpi.edu/FRC/index.html</a></p> <p>I highly suggest you guys familiarize yourselves as much as possible with it before the season. </p> http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=25#post-144 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:54:17 +0000 daFisch 144@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ <p>Guess what. For next year, there are apparently no victors included in the kit. The control system is also different and features an 802.11 wireless access point. You can see it here.<br /> <a href="http://www.usfirst.org/community/frc/content.aspx?id=8976" rel="nofollow">http://www.usfirst.org/community/frc/content.aspx?id=8976</a> </p> 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/ <p>summer is too hot<br /> other than that its good </p> 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/ <p>hey guys its ben</p> <p>looks like its summer now<br /> with nice hot weather and no school </p> 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/ <p>Pictures from the May 2008 Intuitive Surgical Open House are now up on the Picasa web album at picasaweb.google.com/971.FIRST </p> 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/ <p>All,</p> <p>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.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bmf.com/frc%20971/default.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.bmf.com/frc%20971/default.htm</a></p> <p>Real proud of the team</p> <p>Roy Dumlao<br /> <a href="mailto:roy@bmf.com">roy@bmf.com</a><br /> Berger Manufacturing<br /> Phone 408--232-3157 AM<br /> Phone 408-232-3123 PM<br /> Cell 408-892-1241 </p> 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/ <p>Awesome! Thanks, Nader. </p> 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/ <p>Appears to look fine in <a href="http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/3397/spartanroboticsnh7.png">Firefox 3 Beta 4</a> as well. </p> 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/ <p>I tested it. It pretty much works in IE 8. There's just one tiny rendering issue with the search button. </p> 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/ <p>I've just tweaked, tested, and modified the new site. It <strong>(just the homepage, for now)</strong> now works in:</p> <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> <p>I'm going to see now if it works in IE 8 beta 1. </p> http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/topic.php?id=7#post-135 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:26:47 +0000 Jai 135@http://www.spartanrobotics.org/forums/ <p>*If you give Hershal a receipt, he will lose it<br /> *Make copies of receipts </p> 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/ <p>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:</p> <p>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:</p> <p><code>KPICASA_GALLERY</code></p> <p>If you want to display a specific year of albums (it will find that year's photos automatically, no manual gallery names needed):</p> <p><code>KPICASA_GALLERY(year: 2008)</code></p> <p>If you want to display just one album:</p> <p><code>KPICASA_GALLERY(SVR2008)</code></p> <p>...Or a couple of specific albums:</p> <p><code>KPICASA_GALLERY(SVR2008,SiliconValleyRegionalFriday)</code> </p> 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/ <p>It's installed. I've posted the location of the Wordpress install in a thread in Spartan Robotics (Private Forum). </p> 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/ <p>I'm installing it now... </p> 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/ <p>Wordpress 2.5 has been finally released as a stable version! </p>