{"id":119,"date":"2008-01-06T23:07:24","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T03:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/?p=119"},"modified":"2008-01-06T23:07:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T03:07:24","slug":"o-god-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"O GOD FIRST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2008 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usfirst.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">FIRST<\/a> game was released yesterday. The season is on! Some of my thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0Car steering could have a huge advantage here. If tank steering is used, smooth yaw control is vital. Omnidirectional drive systems are more complicated than necessary.<\/li>\n<li>Multispeed transmissions will be advantageous for either.<\/li>\n<li>There will be all-drivetrain bots. This is a good n00b year.<\/li>\n<li>I hope they built the end of the rink really, really well. 50 feet is plenty of time to get up to a ridiculous speed even with the limited motor and power systems.<\/li>\n<li>It will be interesting to see how people work around the IR board&#8217;s susceptance to interference, especially from six remotes.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s a really, really big ball.<\/li>\n<li>A method of throwing the ball a short distance will be advantageous for hurdling the ball. It will be faster than holding the ball and dropping it on the other side of the overpass.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think this is a pretty good year for the NGHS Robotics team to introduce a bunch of n00blets. There are only a few people out of 25-30 which have any experience at all (the team powerhouses, namely me and a friend, graduated last year). I&#8217;ll only be able to coach in person until the 16th, which is after the first week. By then, a design should be hashed out anyway &#8211; a solid design is definitely first priority for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2008 FIRST game was released yesterday. The season is on! Some of my thoughts: \u00c2\u00a0Car steering could have a huge advantage here. If tank steering is used, smooth yaw control is vital. Omnidirectional drive systems are more complicated than necessary. Multispeed transmissions will be advantageous for either. There will be all-drivetrain bots. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bots","category-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}