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  • Category: Robotics
  • Founded: Sep 10, 2008
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Hello BEST teams, I would like to invite you all to an online session on Introduction to MathWorks Simulink programming software for the BEST 2012 competition....
1 Sep 18, 2012
4:14 pm

math.sandeep
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A technical question was asked on the BEST Q&A: If the motor is changed to 1/2 speed (127 to 60) does the Torque also go to half torque or stay the same. This...
1 Sep 16, 2012
11:15 pm

dmgauntt2002
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It's Mar 2012 and the Sept 2012 WARP XX Kickoff is still way over the horizon. Lots of great postings and pics to review. With the many Dallas and vicinity...
1 Mar 20, 2012
4:39 am

me_dardo2007
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I've posted the check-in pictures from TX BEST. Mike Blazer...
5 Jan 4, 2012
5:26 am

michaelblazer77
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For those obsessed with scores such as myself, I listed the total and average scores of the top ten teams from each phase at each regional competition, with...
1 Jan 3, 2012
3:32 pm

seancsnm
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Sorry about the delay, but here are the Wildcard Teams, Semi Final Teams and the Final scores. The UT Dallas web site (http://www.utdallas.edu/best/) has all...
1 Dec 13, 2011
1:22 am

michaelblazer77
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I just wanted to say great job to all those who competed at the last regional competition of the season. I very much enjoyed watching via live stream - it...
1 Dec 12, 2011
7:17 am

seancsnm
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One most exceptional TX BEST Regional is in the record books and two more to go before ... WORLD BEST! WAY TO GO TEAMS! So who's keeping the record books? Does...
2 Dec 7, 2011
4:17 am

SHAKYES@...
mom2cpt
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(1) No World. No National. A Grand Experiment ... 6Sigma'd. Some teams have well deserved hardware that's BEST history. (2) Well, still another Regional for...
2 Dec 7, 2011
4:15 am

seancsnm
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Looking forward to seeing everyone at the Texas BEST Regional Robotics Championship in a few days. Be sure to stop by Pit #39 to pick bug vitamins for you and...
3 Nov 16, 2011
10:53 pm

michaelblazer77
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Good Morning, The guys would like to operate a server using one of the push buttons on the front of the controller... Push the button, the servo activates,...
10 Nov 16, 2011
5:58 am

seancsnm
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Our middle-school team didn't make it past the local hub level but we finally have enough parental support and dedication that we hope to be able to make...
6 Nov 16, 2011
5:58 am

Lee Brownell
lee_brownell
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So today was the second most frustrating day of BEST I have experienced in the past ten years. Every round had robots not running because the VEX joystick lost...
24 Nov 2, 2011
2:24 am

ripphyzard
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I was a referee at our local hub competition this past Saturday. Consequently I watched 50+ rounds from up close, and in most of those rounds the teams that I...
4 Nov 1, 2011
4:52 am

seancsnm
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You may have read a thread I started recently about the North Houston BEST Competition and all the robot controllers that could not connect to their...
2 Nov 1, 2011
4:48 am

michaelblazer77
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Got a problem getting the cortex and joystick controller to connect after downloading a program. (I'm cross-posting between here and the RobotC forum, so if...
3 Oct 31, 2011
4:20 pm

elizteacher
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I'm just curious as to what the highest round scores for other hubs has been....
1 Oct 25, 2011
3:54 pm

seancsnm
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To aid in the development of the software that runs our robot, the ThunderRidge Robotics Club created a small API that handles some of the basic functions that...
1 Oct 20, 2011
3:40 am

skylersaleh@...
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Anyone else having issues with speed controllers on the drive wheels/big drive motors burning out while the students are driving the robot? We have had 3 go...
5 Oct 20, 2011
3:40 am

TerryG
tagrimley
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SA-BEST completed our HUB competition this past Sat, Oct 15, 2011! It was exciting and spirit filled! Just check out www.sabest.org (and get a peak at your...
1 Oct 17, 2011
4:41 pm

me_dardo2007
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After 13 years of preparing teams for the wonderful BEST competition, this year's competition was an absolute disaster due to linking problems with the VEX...
1 Oct 17, 2011
4:39 pm

Sam
samnsaenz2001
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Our hub didn't know the answer....
3 Oct 16, 2011
3:55 pm

Michael Carroll
carromj_au
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Hi, so i'll keep this simple and to the point. I'm part of my school's notebook group but we're rookies here. We really haven't grasped how to start the...
5 Oct 11, 2011
6:58 pm

Jasmine
silly_kid15
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Hi this is berry middle school, do you recommend costumes or business type clothing for presentations? We are not sure which ones we should do! Thanks for your...
3 Oct 11, 2011
6:58 pm

Lori Jack
mailthejacks
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In the past the top 2 teams from each Hub in the robot and Best competitions advanced to Regionals. Is that still the case?...
2 Oct 10, 2011
5:04 am

Greg
gdyoung45
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Hey, I'm the notebook team for the Discovery School. I was wondering what direction I should go for the research paper. The part I'm confused on is: the...
2 Sep 30, 2011
7:58 pm

Kevin Fathi
khfathi2003
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The message history lists numbers of messages posted each month, but I see no messages listed when I try to view them. What's up? Ann...
7 Sep 23, 2011
7:28 pm

Marion Cole
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The Q&A was open earlier this week but is now again showing as being password protected "until 9/24". Our hub folks said they don't have a password for us to...
2 Sep 23, 2011
2:07 pm

Greg
gdyoung45
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I was wondering if anyone else has not received their easyC license code yet? My hub has not received theirs, and we are getting concerned....
2 Sep 23, 2011
2:07 pm

Greg
gdyoung45
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Just wanted to remind everybody that our unofficial questions and answers community, bestfaqs.org is still up and running. Obviously, there cannot be any...
1 Sep 5, 2011
11:11 pm

Michael Carroll
carromj_au
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