Re: Calling all 1992 FIRST Veterans!
 

Well,

Nothing like Ken Stafford to come up with an idea this twisted ;-) Personally I think that from a PR perspective this is a good idea I think it would be cool to do at Nationals to. Maybe this is just because I am partial to "old FIRST" although I only date back to 1996. A lot of students now in FIRST do not even know that there was a compeition in 1992...corn? what does corn have to do with anything? I also have my own selfish reasons that I'd just like to see the 92 game with the corn...for some reason I have this obession about the corn I think we should bring it back...How about filling the current field with corn Ken?? I try each year to get them to do this at River Rage and I've been unsuccessful so far. Sadly I think it will be pretty hard to get an opponent 92 bot but it would be cool.

See you all at BattleCry,

Justin

Re: Calling all 1992 FIRST Veterans!
 

i have some good news...
we will be bringing our '92 robot to battlecry and we will ONLY compete against you (team 190) if u can recreate the teather system. we dont want to alter our '92 robot, we would like to keep it as an original. so, if we can compete on a teather system, then we will most likely be having a 1v1 maize craze competition once again! (but with 2 bots)

Re: Calling all 1992 FIRST Veterans!
 

Very cool! That is exactly our current plan--tethered sytems, on-off controls, etc. Should be an interesting bit. Currently we are planning this demo to occur after the elimination semi-finals, just prior to the finals. Certainly it will be covered by the streaming video... Any other takers???

Ken

Re: Calling all 1992 FIRST Veterans!
 

do u have any idea on how u are going to recreate the '92 field, and where it will be located at the comp? (is there going to be enough room)

Re: Calling all 1992 FIRST Veterans!
 

This is getting exciting! I have the complete (10 page!) instructions for the game. Fascinating challenge. The actual field was 16 by 16 with the tether point 22 and 1/2 ft above the field! We considered making a 1/2 field but that would radically effect the robot placement strategy (the adjacent corners of the field have different height ball holders). We are now thinking about a 12 by 12 field set between the snack bar and FIRST Frenzy field (parking lot side of Harrington). This would provide plenty of space for routine traffic and allow the field to be used multiple times during the day without interfering with the main field. The cameras would focus on this activity to provide big screen viewing for those not surrounding it.

Gotta a bunch of cool historical facts. The actual other 2 finalists in the last matches were Illinois' Wheeling High School/Motorola, Inc. (now Team 111, Jon Walger, 16, and Andy Bachmann, 15, piloted "Da Cat" with engineering support from Bruce Mueller and Dan Rooney), and Indiana's Kokomo High School/Delco Electronics Corporation (now Team 45, Carol Givens, 18, and Jason Strawhacker, 16, drove "Cornvette" with coaching support from Delco engineers Gene West and Tim Garner) in finals. Your team was driven by Jonathan Payne, 18, and Hugo Mederios, 18, operating "Smilee," with NYPRO coach Eric Yantz. So far we have actually tracked down 3 of the original 4 stage crew from WPI's "Devastator" and hope to have them operating during this rematch.

It would still be way cool to have a 4-robot field...

Ken

Re: Calling all 1992 FIRST Veterans!
 

Please tape it. Wish I could be there. This sounds really interesting to see a replay from 92'