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I think somebody looked up last year's clue by mistake. Sometimes we forget the Inernet is persistent as well as ephemeral.

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Wow, that's pretty good! It would line up with how the GDC uses hints.

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Considering who figured out the 2006 clue, or part of it, I'm not so sure that's a coincidence.

I was thinking someone should drive out there and investigate.:)

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It also states on page 2-5 of the FRC Programming Guide:

"You can send image data to the host computer or perform live front panel debugging only during development, not during the FRC competition."

So that pretty much makes official what you were saying is already fairly unreasonable. Only the image processing VIs.. as it should be!

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We tried searching everything in google maps and no luck with any kind of image that would've showed up. We also tried zoming out at every stage and could'nt see anything.

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We tried using the camera to drive during our initial shakedown of the Beta system. We found that the delay increased dramatically as the robot got further away from the control station and after a certain range was exceeded we lost the signal entirely. That range was not much more than the length of the field. We decided that driving by video is not going to happen just yet, even in practice.

We have just started playing with the camera again to see how it performs for tracking objects etc. We were quite impressed with the ability of the color sensing VI to accurately track and determine image size in a wide variety of lighting conditions. You can see the pictures on the FIRST forum here: http://forums.usfirst.org/showpost.p...34&postcount=1

You can almost play in the dark. The whole setup seems to be much less sensitive to lighting variations. We are thinking that it will add a whole new dimension to the game.

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Did anyone notice that the aerial view of the Phoenix location looks like a circle-triangle-square?

link

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So we've got some notice of teamwork for "Central in Phoenix", obviously.
We've got a pickup on Minnetonka in Minnetonka, which seems to be a lake with a lot of ice fishing, and we had an arctic fish for the first game hint.
There's a football field on Evergreen in Dover...

Now the only one that isn't all that obvious is the first one.

What sort of shape do all the points make on the map? Is it a loop? I heard some of them make a triangle, but is that all 4 of them, and one of them is just inbetween a line?

And no, I haven't read every single post yet.

EDIT: Oh, and also. I think I have some more thought on the thing. With the additional processing power, there must be a reason behind the upgrade, so I'm going to take a wild guess that maybe "getting connected" doesn't mean teamwork, but instead swapping to tele-operated mode. Which could mean it's autonomous for the first portion, just like last year.

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Continuing to chum the waters with random trivia, there is a type of battery called a Zamboni pile. Certainly a battery could "get connected".

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See ChrisH's post on that. He lives in the area. Note the Zamboni company being on the street.

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If this game does turn out to be capture the flag, then YAY!!!:D

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I think some of my brain's magic smoke leaked out trying to think about this. It seems to me that we need to think more outside the box than we have previously. My head hurts thinking about it.:confused:

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This is what i meant.... just said smarter... and with more actual data :(

During autonomous.. when your not sending picture data... the camera was very responsive and we got our camera to follow a green light easily (we were only held back by our servos ability's)

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And just when I was feeling good about the Zamboni clue I found the Paramount ME™ Robotic Telescope System in Golden Colorado. link