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Re: Official 2005 Clue Thread

Except that filtering wouldn't matter; you would need some sort of camera to process the light and then output it onto a monitor. Our eyes cannot see IR light, or UV light. If you filter it, you are only filtering out the stuff that isn't it, but you aren't changing its wavelength, and thus it's not visible.

Now if FIRST wanted to hook up IR cameras and put monirtors in the driver's pit, that'd be swank. ^_^


By the way, anyone ever wonder if FIRST would make it so that we didn't decide where our bot started, but our opponents did? That wouldn't make the IR beacon in a random/changing spot, but it WOULD make the bot NEED to use some sort of poisitioning system (IR) to figure out where it is . . . although this has nothing to do with the clue . . .


As for Pi, what if the objects on the field were frisbees? I doubt it, since there's no easy way to throw it over the shielding (unless you are extremely good at hte hammer-toss) but FIRST has used all sorts of balls, boxes, doughnot-beanbag-thingies, and even a pleaying field with corn kernals as the turf. Frisbees would be fun, and not hte wierdest thing ever ^_^
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