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Re: Bumper Colors Messing with Vision
In 2005, I was a field reset volunteer on Curie. That was the year of the green vision tetra, so there were several robots programmed to seek/track green.
My team shirt had a green collar that protruded above my volunteer shirt. During one match a robot locked onto me during auto. Another volunteer graciously pulled me out of the way of the robot's arm just before it could whack me. After that match, the field supervisor had me take a break to remove the team shirt. The team rightfully complained that a field fault (my attire) had interfered with their auto. I can't remember if they got a replay; probably they didn't. I felt pretty bad about having caused the problem.
Imagine how you'd feel if your robot caused a similar problem for an alliance partner.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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