[Jim Zondag]

Lets look at the history of FIRST's "forced technology" additions to the KIT.
2002 - Infrared detection of Goals - Faliure, no one really did it.
2003 - Infrared Detection of boxes - Failure, no one really did it.
2004 - Infrared beacon at Ball Tees - Failure, backscatter and other issues made this toatlly unreliable.
2005 - Camera to detect vision tetras - Failure, only a few teams ever managed to make this work.

I hope the powers at FIRST will learn from these lessons and NOT repeat past mistakes. If they do want us to develop new technology, why keep it a secret until January. If we are to use the camera again in 2006, why not tell us now???? If FIRST did this, the likelyhood of our success would be much higher.