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Originally Posted by 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.
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This is actually something that would be very, very interesting for FIRST, and can easily be implemented in a game. For example, in a thread thats popular right now, there's discussion about how to pick up a baton. For a team that wanted to invest the time and effort, a multi-axis grabber with the cmucam to align it would be the best option. Simply get the grabber(linked in position to the cmucam) close to the baton, and the cmucam could align so as to allow baton capture in any orientation. A real world problem/challenge that could be, or maybe already is, integrated into FIRST.
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