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Just keep in mind that The Cheesy Poofs are in a different time zone.

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Since they are in California, they probably meant pacific time.

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Well now don't I look foolish. I'm waiting with anticipation!

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It's pretty funny how fast we all answered that.
Over, and over, and over again.

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That's just how excited we all are for 254's reveal; everybody's keeping track of the time.

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He just wanted to clarify something on the time and then suddenly ninjas! Makes me wonder...
Man it would be real cool if a bunch of ninjas gave me some thin mints right now...

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Have you already seen the robot, or are you waiting in anticipation like the rest of us?

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I have not, I'm excited to see it.

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How about some hybrid mode from the poofs. . .

http://youtu.be/ZaOiaC0I8pY

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What exactly is going on there? What was hybrid mode? It appears that they're using a Kinect to track their movements (?) but was this a part of FRC's official game for 2012?

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No. Since you can't use controllers to control the robot during autonomous, the driver was tracked via Kinect and various body movements translated to various machine functions (e.g. hand push would be shoot, jedi force touch would be move, etc.)

This is now illegal due to Cheezy Vision, in which a similar technique was used to tell the robot which goal was hot. It "isn't in the spirit of autonomous mode"

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I am pretty sure that the Cheesy Poofs are in their own time zone - known as the "Chuck Norris Zone"

-dave


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Other stories from an alternative FRC history:

• A single 1992 corn kernel is mailed to every FIRST supporter who donates more than $50
• The first robot to demonstrate bumpers before they were made mandatory also originally sported "shoulder pads" and "shin guards," but these had to be removed to make weight
• A 2007 "rack" was repurposed as a swingset in a central Manchester playground

(Yes, Kinect was a legitimate part of the game, but most teams didn't use it. 254 was poking fun at an element of the 2012 game design that seemed to be an afterthought. See 2012 game manual for more information.)

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In order:
Awesomeness.
Cheezy Vision before it was Cheezy Vision.
It does appear that way. But, was it really for really real?
Yes.....ish. It did not get utilized much in 2012 as most teams shot from a stationary spot. In fact, that was an odd year where several teams scored in autonomous only as they had difficulty lining up their shot after Hybrid mode.

http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...ated-documents