I highly doubt ice. Ever been to a hockey game?? They would have to keep the competition site that cold throughout the whole competition weekend. Many venues are not equipted to carry air equipment required to freeze the ice, so then they would be forced to buy or rent them and that would cost extra $$$.


Im sure ice is out of the question.

Well, without any traction, our robots wouldn't move :)

(Shy of building flying/floating machines, anyway)

That's it, we figured it out...flying machines.....



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Yes, the square WILL go through the circle hole if you push hard enough!

I heard that there may be incidents when operating the "robots" where FRICTION might exist!! Then another person ::wink wink:: told me that the entire thing might be frictionless, so nothing could go anywhere!!! THE POSSIBILITIES!

A truely frictionless surface is virtually impossible.


Besides, if it were frictionless, you could use airjets to move around. (fans, etc).

now thats an idea....mount solenoids on the back of the bot to fire in short bursts to propel the robot

I'm talking NO FRICTION, like NO AIR EITHER!! so therefore you would have NOTHING to propulse against! TOTALLY FRICTIONLESS!!!! NO GRAVITY EITHER!! CRAZY!!

Sandy Claws are coming to town
 

I heard that all robots would be powered by the potential energy of falling sand. Each machine will start the round with a reservoir of 100 lbs of beach sand and it is up to the teams to make the falling sand do the work to move the machine. Of course, since the sand weighs 100 lbs the rest of the robot can only weigh 30 lbs.

Robots can steal sand from their neighbors during one round to have an advantage for the next round. Sand falling on the floor is forfeit.

Of course the Placebo vacuum cleaner from 1998 will be reactivated for after round cleanup.

WC

I think it'd be tough building rockets with stuff from Small Parts. I hope FIRST has found a good aerospace supplies firm...

Sand! Of course! Sand would be an excellent propellant...

No gravity = no mass. Nothing. Period. No competition. No students. No robot. It's impossible to have no gravity and still have mass. Gravity is the attraction between two masses.

Since there is nothing around the playing field (or even no playing field), it's safe to say there's no FIRST competition, since it isn't a FIRST competition without kids.


I'm still one step ahead of you... :D

Who said we would use the conventional laws of physics? We’d use FirstPhysics! - Here you can have mass w/o having gravity. Duhh... :)

I heard that the robots will move! (Lame)

Seriously though, these comments are really mean.

I heard the machine needs to purify water, and generate electricity.

Keeping in mind that FIRST will own the rights to everything you do.

Prototype Finished!!!

After compiling all the information leaks in this game, I have come up with the perfect solution!



You're all going down, because I'm going up!

What's your definition of gravity? Gravity is the result of mass bending space-time. It is the bending of space time. Modifying space-time could prove to be difficult, but if Dave's right (and they're using multi-dimensional wormholes) I guess they're going to need to solve that problem anyway to prevent multiple particles (and strings) from phasing into a singular form. Of course, FIRST could just use diamagnetic levitation to nullify the gravity caused by Earth (see Floating Frogs). Oh great, now my brain hurts :(.