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Originally Posted by Jared
Fair point.
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For a few years I've been joking with Team 11 when we split into Team 11/193 that if we split again we can own a whole side of the field.
Then integrate light based communications into all 3 robots and make them electronically cooperative. If it wasn't for some of the rules maybe make them join into a bigger robot after the match started.
The trick is not really finding a way to communicate in a way FIRST might approve and may not even realize you have been doing. The trick is getting everyone involved on the same page to leverage it. Any team with a camera and a light source right now could strobe that light source and read that with the camera off the retro-reflective tape allowing the robots to communicate. FIRST already approves the cameras and the light sources. So really what can they do about this in the absence of a new rule?
You could actually code this at the competition and probably wire it up if you can get all the people involved to cooperate.