[Andrew Blair]

An interesting application for the CMU cam would be for object identification, more than actual navigation. For example, if all the game objects were placed over the operator stations ( I know, dangerous), in two colors, it would make sense to use the camera to distinguish, maybe help you pick them up, but not to run the bot entirely. As a subsystem. Maybe half the objects are worth 5 points a piece, and the other half are worth like 1 point. Anyone can fumble around and get a piece, but only the teams with the CMUcam could reliably pick up the valuable pieces. ( However, I must say I also hate the CMUcam. 6 weeks is not long enough to build a robot, then code a complex camera with hardware limits in mind, all with students who probably have never coded a total of 500 lines of valid C code. Just us, but it seems a little rough.)