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Originally Posted by Jason Rudolph
LED's can work just fine, but they need to be upgraded to brighter ones. A single Luxeon emitter in approximately the same size housing would work just great. They are SUPER bright, enough so that entertainment lighting is starting to use them in all kinds of applications, Just go watch the new wheel of fortune set. All those brightly colored strips are actually LEDs.
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That's another thing to bring up at the team forum. Mean while, it is too late to change the LED to better ones this year.
But is there nothing we can do about it for the remaining competition? Well, not unless we decide we can do something about it. I am nothing, it would not be hard to get teams to put some decoration on their robot that will help show which alliance they are on. You can do that from adding your own light onto the robot to red/blue banner, to colored team number, to colored flag, as long as they are non-functional decoration.
It will be very nice if all the teams see this message, and decide they want to spend a little time to decorate their robot to help the spectators and participants better understand the scoring and the game.
I truely believe things like these can be made better right away, if there are enough people to be aware of it. Will it take time and work to make those decorations? Yes... But, it sure beat not knowing which of the robots are on what alliance, and why they are doing whatever they are doing on the field.
So, who is with me? Let's help bring awareness to as many teams as possible about the problem with the visibility of the LEDs in competition, and ask teams to start adding red/blue decoration on their robots!