w Logan. He notebooks, he codes, he pulls up to worlds in a bucket hat that rivals the likes of 10c. Is there anything this man doesn’t do? Thanks so much for the vid, our notebook will definitely be larger than the 15 pages we had last year😭😭😭.
As a rising 9th grader, this helps a lot! I never see teams post their ENB online which makes sense, but these videos help a lot. I love looking at them for inspiration. Honestly, I might switch to digital now. Anyways, huge credit to you for posting this online to help out new teams and veteran ones. It’s honestly already helping me out. Great notebook, don’t know how you did it lol
Awesome notebook! How advantageous/impactful do you think the physical/printed element was? Do you think a lot of judges prefer the original feel of a paper notebook and might subconsciously favour them? Thanks
We believe the component of signed pages aids in the notebook's credibility, as it 'locks in' the timeline of events that may otherwise be altered if each page was manually added in a binder of sorts. Appealing to judges, in our opinion, is less about making the information pretty and beautiful, and more about making it easy to find. This is where the tabs, side colors, and big-bold titles comes in clutch. The quicker they take to find a page, the more information they will read, and, potentially, the higher the grade will be received. Its important to note that all of these visual shenanigans are far less important than the actual information in the notebook. A notebook with great information is a great notebook. The actual format and presentation is to give notebook judges more time to read the pages they are looking for.
Hey Logan, you mentioned quite a few times retaining the feel of a hand-written journal for for example judges who were used to the old format. Having the physically-bound digitally-made pages works really nicely with this, and I tend to favor the crisp pages and book feel of it as well, but we don't have access to a pre-bound book like that that we could paste pages in. Last year, we typed everything on a google doc and then printed the pages out to put in a binder. Do you have any advice how to bring the book feel to it digitally, for someone who can't scan/take pictures of a physical copy like that? Would it be worth creating something such as a digitally hand-written signature to have in the google doc at the end of entries, rather than simply typing the names? For the credibility, as you mentioned, I think our journal followed that well enough because we used a program to digitally time-stamp them to ensure they weren't edited after, so this I am not too worried about, but I do feel like our journal was missing the feel captured by yours very nicely. Any advice you have would be appreciated.
Hey just quick question where did you find that type of notebook because I cant seem to find it and I am in robotics right now and we are trying to look for a note book like that and we can find it
We custom-made a background on photoshop, by drawing lines for the borders, and recolored a free grid as the main background. Our image file for the background will be unavailable for a while.
Yes, we cover game objects, vex lingo(ie. autonomous, possession, etc.), and all SG rules. If you would like to take a look, it’s on page 9 of our notebook. We recommend covering these factors of the manual in no more than 5 pages.
We bought the hard-bound notebook from Book Factory The notebook we purchased can be found at acct107430.shop.netsuite.com/s.nl/c.ACCT107430/it.A/id.406/.f?sc=23&category=104 68 For more options of different notebook size/page count, the full catalog of Book Factory notebooks is acct107430.shop.netsuite.com/s.nl/c.ACCT107430/n.1/sc.23/category.104/.f
Quick question. Ive submitted my ENB once after getting into worlds and I know you have to submit it via an online way. Did you submit your google slides or did you submit each picture of your actual paper ENB and put it into a file?
Gantt charts: Lucid Charts Instead of having a automated Gantt chart, we manually moved/resized boxes onto the canvas to create our timeline. We recommend looking to automated options, however, because our Gantt charts took a while to complete. Pie charts: Google Sheets We highly recommend using Google sheets for most types of charts. It is really quick to use and has a decent result. The main beef we had was that the text was small, when importing to the slideshow. This can be solved by resizing the chart on the Google sheets end.
Hey I really like the font made out of punctuations like dashes in the code section. What tool did you guys use to generate those letters? Thanks and great season!
Our code section were generated with a package(extension) on Atom, the old IDE for PROS. It converted a file of code into a pdf, which we drag-and-drop into the slideshow project. Unfortunately, I do not believe Atom no longer allows new downloads to packages; so I am unable to point to a solution. All other visuals on program entries are from Google Slides Shapes/Lines.
@@515Revision Ok thanks! Also I'm just wondering what templates you use? I see Eztemplate and Okapi mentioned somewhere in the code, but what do you use them for, and is there anything else that you guys would recommend? Thank you! 😄
We used EZ template for pre-tuned PID drive movements. Okapi is a prebuilt library in PROS and has a wide variety of uses. The one we used for most of the season was it’s chassis builder, which is drag-and-drop odometry. In the final months of the season, we used JAR-TEMPLATE, one of the best Vex-Code templates, and rewrote their odometry code in PROS. Finally, we highly recommend checking out Sylib. It’s a library that filters motor velocity to give a more accurate reflection of the actual motor velocity.
The brand we got tabs from was Post-it. We used different types of tabs: www.amazon.com/Post-1-Inch-Yellow-Dispenser-686-ALYR1IN/dp/B00HNW7E84/ref=mp_s_a_1_18?crid=9RSF6CZUKNU6&keywords=tabs+post+it&qid=1685812234&sprefix=tabs+post+it%2Caps%2C426&sr=8-18 www.amazon.com/dp/B001TQ7RAU/ref=tsm_1_tp_tc
We used Book Factory to get the hard-bound notebook. If you would like to check the notebook out, the URL is acct107430.shop.netsuite.com/s.nl/c.ACCT107430/it.A/id.406/.f?sc=23&category=104 For more options of different notebook size/page count, the full catalog can be found at acct107430.shop.netsuite.com/s.nl/c.ACCT107430/n.1/sc.23/category.104/.f
What's up Logan! This is logan from 4828P and I wanted to thank you for letting us hang with you in technology. It really humbled me and made me realize how wonderful of a community you guys have grown. My notebook game has certainly fallen behind, but I will take all of these tips and hopefully win some judged awards finally! - Much love, Logan
My fellow member of the Logan army, it was an absolute pleasure hanging out with you at worlds. I wish you the best of luck with future competitions and beyond endeavors.
