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Originally Posted by 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.
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I do believe that the 2002 and 2003 games used light sensors and reflective tape, not IR. IR was introduced as new for the 2004 game. The boxes, and I think the goals for 2002, had highly reflective tape that allowed the robots to potentialy see them. However, the boxes only had tape if they were the Human placed boxes, I think. IR was a flop and lasted one year. Not to say that it won't come back.