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Haha, we were thinking about pimping out a past-years robot, we were thinking 2004 with the big pneumatic tires, putting them on stubby pneumatics and putting like 6 air tanks there to give it a bouncy ride... Duct tape rims and a sub box would take up the rest of the 120 pounds...

Pictures when we're done...

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FIRST Survivor??? I'd make sure 616 won that one. ;)

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Sorry to ruin everyone's fun but, this is nuts!!!! The second week of competitons for the 2005 season are just starting thursday. Let's wait until after Atlanta to make our predictions and have fun with the current game at hand. But i like the ideas though.

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What every they do for the game itself, I think that the OI and the RC need USB ports and high speed radios. That way there could be faster transfer of data and we could have cool assesories. You could put a printer on you robot. Then they could play office wars.

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the first thing that comes to mind when I hear office wars and robotics in the same thought: Paper Clip Cannon.

Has anyone ever considered using a Confetti Cannon? Those things rock! (Why? Because I invented it in a concept drawing last year) :rolleyes:

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Wow just noticed somthing! Look at two years ago, the game was stack attack, and the scoring objects were square/rectangular. Look at last year, where the balls were round. And this year, tetras. Notice a pattern? Its the FIRST logo from right to left. My prediction is that the game will next year involve boxes again.

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I think it would be awesome if they could someone combine the last 3 year's games all into one (stack attack, first frenzy, and triple play).......some tetras, some boxes, and some balls all going at once, along with maybe some moble goals, a hang bar, a ramp, I dont know, but it would be awesome.

Also, maybe a game a CTF for next year? If they could find a way to do that, it would be cool.

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Personally I'd like to see another game with ramps. Either the (2002?) balancing ones of the 2003 not balancing one. Actually I just like the hieght differences. Not sure why but I think they add a whole new element to the game.

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Some kind of interactive field would be cool, your robot trips a sensor and it makes the goal move... something like that.

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I think that having all three games would be cool , but personally I'd like to see a small water hazard or something . Or put a split ramp in where the ramp only goes halfway across the field on each sidebut theyre connected so you would have to go up the ramp turn , go across the top and come down the other side
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hmm...Water + Electronics + People = BAD :P

The 2006 will probably be similar to this year..lots of penalties, cool designs, people doing crazy things, etc.

I want a field that reacts to what you do...Place object A on Sensor B, Object C is placed on field and you have to place it on Sensor D or something.

I'm pretty sure they will keep the camera and probably add a new sensor..like..Bump sensor..hit an object and it activates something? I know they'll probably try to get more teams to use the camera since its like the gyro when it was released...no one used it until a few years later...

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I don't what it is going to be but i just wish they have stairs. Not like the 2004 game but like standard size stairs for buildings. Maybe something like you have to place an object somewhere in order for a door to the stairs to open and then at top have a relly small space and do something like king of the hill (only for one bot) or i don't know as long as it has stairs I'll be happy. :D

Dave

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Hmmm. I can think of penalties for "unintentionally" pushing a robot off the stairs and down to their doom. Would make it pretty exciting though :)

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wat im thinking is they are going backwards on the logo
two years ago crates=box
last year balls=circle
this year tetras=triangle
and next year the will incorperate the entire logo

my 2 cents....

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In auto: a big circular rotating column with bright yellow or green dots: hit yellow 10pts, hit green 50!pts

In the game: about 5 COMPLETELY different items that can be scored in a 3 different scoring bins ( one is a taped off section of the floor [ 1 pts], one is a PVC square [3 pts], and one is a bucket at the top of a high thing [10 pts] :)

The CLIMAX: robots have to climb a set of standard stairs and put up an arm or something up.

Swarm concept is introduced ... Vex or FIRST comes up with new RC that supports multiple "mini-robots"

water ... do an Indian corn rain dance because thats how long people have been asking for FIRST to have water :D

PS: 1 min of typing for 447 ideas and replies ... muhahaha! :ahh: KILT!? on a ROBOT!?