Like most ppl at this point, I haven't read all the posts in this thread. But here's something that I thought of: Last year, a lot of ppl asked to use the CMU Cam on their robots to allow the robot to do image recognition during autonomous (very useful for something like tracking the big yellow balls). It has been mentioned that amythist is used in enhancing optics... leads me to believe the CMU cam will be allowed this year, maybe even part of the kit.
A sidenote: WPI always runs a pre-season warmup in the style of FIRST, and we design the game ourselves. Purely through dumb luck, many of our game design ideas show up in FIRST (great minds...). Something we were toying with was having the scoring zones change colors (i.e. the points in them switch teams) either randomly, timed, or based on the actions of the robots. Their is your purple
