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Re: Finally the year?

I think i have an idea on why a water game would never happen. (floating boat robot idea)

It gives an unfair advantage to some teams. How would you test the robot without access to some sort of pool? Around here you couldn't test it in a pond or something similar due to the fact that everything freezes. Teams could spend the entire build season not being able to test anything until perhaps a scrimmage. At that point nothing will work, and the entire six weeks would have been an extreme failure.

Like it was mentioned before there could also be electrical issues. Some teams may not have the resources or the ability to be able to completely waterproof the robot. If there was one small problem the electronics could fail completely, or seriously hurt someone. Think about it, your in the pits and attempting to change the battery, the robot is still wet and now your hands are wet. Enough water drips into the connector to short circuit the battery and your part of the short circuit. I'm not exactly sure of what would happen to at least part of you, but i imagine it would not feel good. My guess is that it would result in some sort of burn.

If the robot were boat like, and had some sort of propeller on the back it would also be a safety hazard. Testing out the controls in the pits could be harmful, they are cramped and someone could easily get hurt by getting into the wrong spot. Or on the field, six weeks of work could easily be destroyed by the similar device.

Also you would need to make it float, which could easily fail if the chassis floats. But after you add arms and other appendages to it it increases the weight of the robot and then causes it to sink. You then spend too much time making the rest of the robot float. Only to find out that it really doesn't work all that well, and needs to be readjusted.

These are just my thoughts on an entirely water type game.
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