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One thing I remembered is how will the robot know which alliance it is on? More important to me is, how will the audience know? The flags really, really, badly bug me (not to mention fly 30 ft every so often when bent just the right way). Something I was thinking of was a two color, cold cathode tube almost identical to those used in the green field lights. These are already sold in switchable blue/UV varieties, with two lights inside a single plastic one. You would hook up a diode, so you just need to use a spike controller or something similar to flip the current and change the active light from red to blue. As an aside, if don't cut or extend the wires off of the cold cathode lights, the wires are insulated, and modifying them will result in cross talk (it must not be plain old DC current that comes out of the transformer) that kills the light.