Glow in the dark tape measure (2014 game hint)

[Iaquinto.Joe]

Originally Posted by fb39ca4

Anyone else think the measuring tape game at the power tools booth could be expanded into an FRC game?

Can you explain the game?

[coalhot]

I call red herring

OH MY GOD. MAYBE....JUST MAYBE.....We'll have to measure our parts twice, and then cut them once while machining them! It's a BREAKTHROUGH!

[Nick Lawrence]

Stop. It's sleeping season.

-Nick

[2789_B_Garcia]

Originally Posted by Nick Lawrence

Stop. It's sleeping season.

-Nick

AMEN! Why am I even on here?!?!?

[kristinweiss]

just to clarify the tape measures are not actually glow in the dark but instead have a flashlight on them

[Qcom]

A nuclear game? Marie Curie was a nuclear scientist... maybe they are going to somehow scew the game to favour the curie divison. I can see the rules now:

G35: All FOULS and TECHNICAL FOULS caused by the CURIE divison during the einstien playoffs will be negated compeletey.

[Roger]

Originally Posted by marandola316

The 16 is in red because the standard distance apart to put studs in a wall is 16 inches. On most tape measures the numbers are in red every 16 inches.

Betcha didn't even notice the black diamonds every 19.2" (it's not quite 19-3/16").

That does sound like an interesting tape measure game.

[evanperryg]

I think we may be going in completely the wrong direction. Maybe we will use the tape measures for some kind of extending thing (My team almost did this to make a level 2 climber) and the light might be used for the retroreflective tape that they use on the vision targets. Perhaps this game is similar to 2011 with the whole forklift thing.

[pyroslev]

What color does the tape measure glow? Anyone know?

[Iaquinto.Joe]

Originally Posted by pyroslev

What color does the tape measure glow? Anyone know?

I believe it was noted that they had flashlights built in, not actually glow in the dark.

[fb39ca4]

Originally Posted by evanperryg

I think we may be going in completely the wrong direction. Maybe we will use the tape measures for some kind of extending thing (My team almost did this to make a level 2 climber) and the light might be used for the retroreflective tape that they use on the vision targets. Perhaps this game is similar to 2011 with the whole forklift thing.

Exactly what I was getting at. Maybe the game will make use of tape measures to extend and hook onto objects like the game at the power tools booth at championships.

[NanoCollins]

Did anybody else think that they may just turn off the lights on the field, or block the vision of the drivers making us rely on our vision systems. They wouldn't have to do it for the whole field either, just make us go through a maze tunnel or something that you can't see but have reflective tape on the floor making your robot follow the tape to get through. (just a thought, but it would be cool).

[Roger]

2008 had a Pepper's Ghost setup where robots disappear. Probably unintentional, but still maddening to the drivers. Now you know why the robots had trouble turning at the far end.

[Invictus3593]

WE HAVE TO BUILD OUR ROBOTS IN THE COMPLETE DARK.

only possible explanation