Re: **IMPORTANT FIRST EMAIL BLAST**/Game Tip and 2004 Competition Manual Information
 

Mark,

You beat me to it!

Thats the first thing I thought when i read it. Just an old Zeppelin fan i suppose!

Remind me to hit you at kickoff.

PEACE

Re: **IMPORTANT FIRST EMAIL BLAST**/Game Tip and 2004 Competition Manual Information!!
 

It's a maze It's a maze.

That's my guess anyway.



Always the kid in the red hat.

TEAM 836

Re: **IMPORTANT FIRST EMAIL BLAST**/Game Tip and 2004 Competition Manual Information!!
 

It should be an F1-style road course (with a 10 ft/sec speed limit) :)

Re: **IMPORTANT FIRST EMAIL BLAST**/Game Tip and 2004 Competition Manual Information!!
 

No no no...you've got it all wrong! The robots are going to have to PLAY "Stairway to Heaven" on the guitar! That has got to be it!

That, or maybe some part of the field will be really high up so that we take a half hour setting and resetting the field =)

Although...now that I think about it, maybe the robots play a verticle game, hanging from a grid or wall....nah.

I tried!

Kev

Re: **IMPORTANT FIRST EMAIL BLAST**/Game Tip and 2004 Competition Manual Information!!
 

I was looking at the 10 ft/sec and maybe 10 ft is the diagonal the stairs make. when i thought about it 10 ft/sec seems to fast to be the optimum speed. Also autonomus mode could be lengthened by 10 seconds. Well i dont know those are just my thoughts. What do you think??

Re: **IMPORTANT FIRST EMAIL BLAST**/Game Tip and 2004 Competition Manual Information!!
 

Vmax might be the top speed of some new motor/gearbox they are going to give us.

there were 'two paths you can go by' last year - over the ramp or under the bar

I think what they are really trying to tell us is:

"If theres a bustle in your hedgerow
dont be alarmed now
its just a spring clean
for the may Queen!"

BTW - isnt 'Stairway' the song, if you play it backwards, the chorus says 'I live for Satan'

?

Re: **IMPORTANT FIRST EMAIL BLAST**/Game Tip and 2004 Competition Manual Information!!
 

Ooooooooh!

It makes me wonder!

Re: **IMPORTANT FIRST EMAIL BLAST**/Game Tip and 2004 Competition Manual Information
 

Another thought...

I know about <-this much-> Calculus .

But isn't Vmax a caculus function?

Hmmmm. anyone??

Re: **IMPORTANT FIRST EMAIL BLAST**/Game Tip and 2004 Competition Manual Information!!
 

Bad, bad, bad KenWittlief! :D

Very bad!

Re: **IMPORTANT FIRST EMAIL BLAST**/Game Tip and 2004 Competition Manual Information!!
 

Nice to know it's not just me that's thinking that way. For the past hour or so, I've been wondering...

If there's a bustle in our hedgerow, what does it mean for our robot?

:D

Re: **IMPORTANT FIRST EMAIL BLAST**/Game Tip and 2004 Competition Manual Information!!
 

The 10 ft/second reminded me of the terminal velocity in physics-is that how fast the robots can go because of what FIRST will supply us? Maybe our robots will only be able to go up to 10 ft/second this year.

Re: **IMPORTANT FIRST EMAIL BLAST**/Game Tip and 2004 Competition Manual Information!!
 

Some of our team's mentors hypothesized that the field will have some kind of platform that can be reached via stairs or a ramp. They also think that autonomous mode will either be lengthened and/or put at the end of the matches.

Re: **IMPORTANT FIRST EMAIL BLAST**/Game Tip and 2004 Competition Manual Information!!
 

Could Vmax be a clue on how tall the steps are? It would mean that the steps are just over 18 inches each.... :confused:

Re: **IMPORTANT FIRST EMAIL BLAST**/Game Tip and 2004 Competition Manual Information!!
 

Hm, well FIRST would have to impose a speed limit. Technically, if FIRST just gave us slow motors, we could all gear them up and make them much faster.

Although that would be an interesting rule.

Perhaps it is FIRST's way of saying that going to fast this year will be a problem, maybe danger of running into an obstacle or something.

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does anyone happen to have a 128-bit RC4 decrypter? ;)