2006 game hints?

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by nukemknight

..... but maybe he could mean a blizzard: the driver's vision will be blocked but they will have someone else (like the human player at the corner of the field this year) to tell them where to go....

Let's consider a couple more combinations of hints.
When you mentioned the driver's vision being limited or blocked, I immediatly thought about the appearent push that seems to be in place to have the CMU Cameras back in place this year. If this is true, and picking up "batons" were included, then it would make sense that the game could actually allow the use of the camera to aid the drivers vision during a portion, if not all of the match to guide them to the game objects, like a baton.


During autonomous mode, limiting the robot to ONLY use the camera as a sensor is another possibility. After all, Dave's mentioning of rules that "restrict" the use of certain items really only points to a rule that restricts the use of certain item, not what that item was. Here is the quote:

Originally Posted by dlavery

..... For example, what about a rule that says "no threaded fasteners of any type are permitted on the robot."* If it were up to me, I would add a rule like that. Oh, wait, it is...

-dave

Notice the "like", Dave didn't say "No threaded fasteners", but he did say a rule "like" that.