[ZachKahn]

Here are my sleep deprived thoughts.

In the User Guide under step 5. Operation it states the signal is the strongest in an angle of roughly +/- 30-40 degrees from the normal... Hmm staying on course, stay the course, something presidential, the president works in the oval office, alas! oval shaped game objects. - Game objects will be white considering the color of the White House.

Can be trained with a universal remote... a tv watching robot competition. Bonus points will be awarded to the robot that switches their tv to the Colbert Show with Dean Kamen being interviewed.

This is a receiving device and therefore I think that it has to do with strengthening our autonomous mode. For the past two years, FIRST has given us the option of tracking a green light. This may be an alternative or an addition to the process. The robot may receive a signal from a field transmitter and act accordingly. This signal could never come from any human operator for that would defeat the purpose of autonomous mode. The receiver would be programmed at the beginning of a regional event to correspond to the events specific transmitter.

Hmm IR is a sensor that reads a certain spectrum of light, light is always prominent during the competition, maybe there will be various light sources (4?) the robot will be able to utilize during a match.

Of course, this is all speculation. However, my final idea comes back to the remote control idea. I'm thinking about when a pesky neighbor has a remote to your tv and they change the channel while you're watching it. Just imagine a randomizer or FIRST official that uses this receiver to disable it or make it function in a different way. Dave will have a master remote to all of our robots!!!

Happy holidays everyone!!! 20 days to go.