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Re: Robots sharing information

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Originally Posted by techhelpbb View Post
Any team with a camera and a light source right now could strobe that light source and read that with the camera off the retro-reflective tape allowing the robots to communicate. FIRST already approves the cameras and the light sources. So really what can they do about this in the absence of a new rule?
First, I don't see how using retroreflective tape would do anything special to allow communication. You could blink your light at the tape and see that you did it, but other robots wouldn't notice anything. They'd have to be looking at your light directly.

Second, the existing rules already disallow active robot-to-robot communication:

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Originally Posted by <R55>
One (1) D-Link Wireless Bridge (P/N: DAP-1522), hardware revision B, is the only permitted device for communicating to and from the ROBOT during the MATCH.
They also prohibit any signalling between operator consoles:

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Originally Posted by <R95>
Other than the system provided by the ARENA, no other form of wireless communications shall be used to communicate to, from, or within the OPERATOR CONSOLE.
However, <R95> was judged not to apply to waving at cameras, so the blinking light option might still be viable there.
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