Re: [FTC]: 2009/2010 FTC game design
 

Required sensor?

Could You please post a link to where you read that. :D

I don't quite see how a sensor could be REQUIRED. I mean like...idk. It must be a unique sensor for it to be required.

Re: [FTC]: 2009/2010 FTC game design
 

There was a reference to a "new sensor" but no details, and no discussion in official FIRST communications that it would be mandatory. If it were mandatory and you didn't want to use it, you could always strap it on top of the robot with a zip tie.

Re: [FTC]: 2009/2010 FTC game design
 

That's what I was thinking. A mandatory sensor wouldn't be feasible because you can't guarantee it would be used (what good would a bump sensor on top of a robot do?

Re: [FTC]: 2009/2010 FTC game design
 

from https://www.ftcrobots.com/support/item.aspx?art=2609

(underscores are added by me)

and when you log in (assuming the team is registered) you can see the description of the full kit that you can get...

That's where I heard it from... No other than that - no one official, but... reading between the lines...

Re: [FTC]: 2009/2010 FTC game design
 

Thanks, NalaTI, I hadn't remembered the exact wording.

I'm guessing the new sensor is a pressure sensor -- water game!

Re: [FTC]: 2009/2010 FTC game design
 

Cool! The scoring object could be water balloons!

Additional materials allowed this year would have to be 6 square feet of Gore-tex...


Of course, it could be a temperature sensor, and the scoring object could be ice cubes... then it still would be a water game too...

Re: [FTC]: 2009/2010 FTC game design
 

Woah...OMNI-Wheels??? Is that what it's suggesting? That Omni-wheels will be sold this up coming year?

And....it says "needed" for this year's upcoming game...hm...oh well. I'm sure we'll all find out on September 12th. :D.

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Omni wheels were in the Vex kit, so personally I thought it was a step backward that they were not used this year...

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Eh, FTC was implementing its own kit, and I knew that there was no way that everything would be dandy and great in its first year.

But I am excited that they are announcing Omni-wheels into the kti.

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But we haven't seen a way to order them separately yet! I guess we'll just have to wait and see!