Originally Posted by d.courtney (Post 660302)

I highly doubt that its a hoax and for mainly just one reason. If it was never in an email to the teams then sure I agree FIRST may play with us like this. But I question FIRST ever using its email blast as an accessory to a hoax. The email blasts frequently contain vital information for teams, and using it to play a prank on thousands of minds would lose credibility in its purpose.

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik (Post 660545)

Well, thus my point. A human interpretable signal would be nigh useless for robots in autonomous mode while an IR signal would be highly useful. But in tele-op, the human drivers could easily depend on the human interpretable signals instead of their robot sensing the IR signals. So the IR sensor would be potentially useful but no longer vitally necessary in tele-op.

Originally Posted by artdutra04 (Post 660315)

Well that explains the banana. :p

Originally Posted by MarySheridan (Post 660580)

how does that explain the banana?

Originally Posted by tawnos23 (Post 660597)

I think he just inverted the colors in MS Paint and then pasted in a banana, an allusion to something by Dlavery, I don't remember exactly what.

Originally Posted by MarySheridan (Post 660580)

how does that explain the banana?

Originally Posted by IndySam (Post 660602)

Just an old callback!

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ght=game+hints

Originally Posted by EricH (Post 660483)

It may also be due to the month, or both together.

Someone, somewhere has to pay for everything. In this case, is it too much of a stretch to imagine that DEC (Digital Equipment Corp) offered to pay for these boards (with very generous donations from others), hence the name of the web page?

Originally Posted by Chaos Marine (Post 660672)

hey people after looking at this picture and taking a look at the site it refers you to, this "IR learning Infared remote" makes me think about a year or two ago when Dave from Hot team started to talk about how he wants the robots to respond to more then just one color! this may be the remote they were looking for to do such a thing dont ya think??