[russell]

Coding the CMU cam isnt actually all that tough. Its coding the CMU cam on a FIRST Robot Controller, and having it deal with all the chaos (and lighting condiditions) on a FIRST field thats tough. If you have a PC running linux on the other hand its simple to program it. I think it would be cool to have a competition that in some way promotes automated systems under human control. For example the human points a boom on the robot at an object, and the robot automatically retrieves it.