2013 ACTUAL game hint!!!

[ahartnet]

A few thoughts

1) in regards to this being hint #1. I remember last year they outright gave us a hint saying that the kinect was going to be important to this years game. Maybe not in those words exactly.

2) 4" x 1" x 1" sounds like it could be a smaller kinect?

Originally Posted by ahartnet

2) 4" x 1" x 1" sounds like it could be a smaller kinect?

Do they make those? If they do, it could be for vision tracking purposes instead of robot control purposes.

[nathan_hui]

As far as I'm aware of, there isn't a smaller kinect. And the normal container for the kinect is not 4 x 1 x 1.

[ahartnet]

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

Do they make those?

No, I'm pretty sure they don't. Also, I thought the kinect was something like a foot long, but only an inch deep/wide. Looking up the dimensions show it's actually 11"x3"x3" leaving me to believe that it's not a reduced set of kinect features.

I just wanted to do some pure speculations.

Also, I think with the lyrics "never gonna let you down" and the "holding weight" portion of the puzzle...we'll need some strong robots.

[Nick Lawrence]

Originally Posted by ahartnet

2) 4" x 1" x 1" sounds like it could be a smaller kinect?

I normally don't post in these, but I seem to remember that this box was the RSL last year.

-Nick

[ENIAC]

What I see possibly happening is Kinect data being processed onboard the robot by a RasPi, if our suppositions turn out to be correct.

[EricPalmatier]

Interesting. Perhaps the RSL this year is a 4 color 1" diameter light pole. its square cross section would be 4X1X1. the top light could be Orange, with the bottom three lights indicating alliance color and other important game specific information. Allen-Bradley does have lights on the market like this. Similar lights can be seen on those automated check out systems common in grocery stores. just an idea.

[Johnny_5]

Maybe the game is oriented around the seal idea. Since the Navy is involved in FRC this year, and the lyrics reference a seal and "a dinner missed" (holding weight). And Rick Astley sings "Never gonna let you down".... maybe this is a helicopter game?


Just some speculation....

[JB987]

Anybody ever see footage of the team related task the Seals struggle with while undergoing hellish training on the beach? Teams of 8 or so have to pick up big, heavy log and carry/hold it for a real long time...makes you wonder, huh?

[Gir_450]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here but I think we'll all figure out what this hint means sometime soon. xD

[Kevin Thorp]

Originally Posted by JB987

Anybody ever see footage of the team related task the Seals struggle with while undergoing hellish training on the beach? Teams of 8 or so have to pick up big, heavy log and carry/hold it for a real long time...makes you wonder, huh?

Wow... That would be a new twist. Two (or more) robots having to work together to carry long heavy game element.

[malanis]

so, a teammate of mine, who for 2 years now have guessed the correct game piece (tubes, and balls[though he wasnt thinking basket]) seems to think it will be tetras, not from any hints, just from a hunch i guess. and there seems to be talk about them coming back in this thread. also, a tetra is a fish. water game.

[IisMathwizard]

I wonder if the Game lab issues the game hint each year so we can come up with some weird and wacky new game ideas for them to tone down for next year's game.... huh... i wonder...

[John Sabath]

Originally Posted by Kevin342

Wow... That would be a new twist. Two (or more) robots having to work together to carry long heavy game element.

I like it!

Originally Posted by IisMathwizard

I wonder if the Game lab issues the game hint each year so we can come up with some weird and wacky new game ideas for them to tone down for next year's game.... huh... i wonder...

That wouldn't surprise me at all.

[Kevin Thorp]

With multiple robots all working together, just think what they could accomplish!