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Originally Posted by EricH
Jason, are you on the 2009 GDC?
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Ooops! I've been outed! Time to hide the fish.
Seriously, though, Eric makes a good point in that "FRC Legal" really does come from only three sources: The Game Manual (released on kickoff day and updated during the build season), The Q&A forum (started a day or two after kickoff, where teams can get official answers and interpretations of the rules) and the Updates (released typically twice each week during build season via e-mail and posted on the FRC website... and eventually reflected in the manual.)
And while I will, of course, defer to the rules should they say differently, I believe there are several technical reasons that will require all input to the cRio to travel through the driver station, just as all input to the previous robot controller had to travel through the Operator Interface.
Probably the most important point that occurrs to me as I type this is that FRC has a very thorough set of rules that are expected to be enforced meticulously. Based on past practice, if you are one pound overweight, or 1/16" over size, or used green wire where you were supposed to use red... you don't compete until you have complied with the rule book. There are dozens of rules to read, and while they do change a bit from year to year, it would serve a rookie team well to read previous years' rule books in advance of the competition season. Look here
http://www.usfirst.org/community/frc...t.aspx?id=4094 to get an idea of what you're going to be getting in January.
Jason
P.S. The "time to hide the fish" comment obliquely references two recurring themes on Chief Delphi... members (okay, one member in particular) of the Game Design Committe have been known to give very obscure and ultimately practically useless hints about the game prior to kickoff. There is also a recurring "joke" about next year's game being a water game. No one is quite sure what, exactly, a "water game" is, and it makes for a funny joke the first couple times you see it. Chief Delphi veterans tend to groan a bit when they see it brought forward again year after year...