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FRC 2015 Conspiracy?

During a team brainstorming session, a few students noticed some interesting coincidences:

1. The KOP is sent out in totes.

2. Warehouses often use totes for holding large quantities of small objects.

3. Totes are often stacked on pallets in a specific pattern: 3 horizontally and 2 vertically. (comparable to the pattern of LANDFILL)

4. Warehouses that use these totes often stack them 6 tall.

5. Floor-based wire covers are often less than two inches tall and 2 feet across, and rarely have a large slope angle (no greater than 25 degrees). (comparable to the SCORING PLATFORMS)

6. Stacking platforms cause teams to place totes in rows, and maneuver between them.

These previous points can be interpreted to relate this year's FIRST Competition to actions performed in a warehouse. They still have not figured out how to relate the LITTER or the RECYLCING CONTAINERS to their conspiracy. Possibly to carry out the theme.

Remember, all of this is speculation. Feel free to provide input and other ideas.
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Re: FRC 2015 Conspiracy?

For the record, I started this Idea
Also a business viable for these warehouse robots could be andymark. Andymark has access to almost all parts used on our robot.
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Re: FRC 2015 Conspiracy?

Interesting. It's really a useful game this year actually.
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Re: FRC 2015 Conspiracy?

I thought about this too. I think that this year's game is actually the most practical in terms of designing a more "industrial" machine. The designs from this year will be more applicable in a real world setting than other years that have shooters or kickers, etc....
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Re: FRC 2015 Conspiracy?

Well in the kickoff broadcast NASA said that they used design elements from Robonauts' 2005 Robot to help their robot designs, so I think FIRST is trying to have teams start helping in real-life designs, and warehouse robots could be an option.
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Re: FRC 2015 Conspiracy?

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Interesting. It's really a useful game this year actually.
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...I think that this year's game is actually the most practical in terms of designing a more "industrial" machine. The designs from this year will be more applicable in a real world setting than other years that have shooters or kickers, etc....
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...I think FIRST is trying to have teams start helping in real-life designs, and warehouse robots could be an option.
Perhaps it's part of a greater conspiracy to prepare us students for making non-sportsy robots?
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Perhaps it's part of a greater conspiracy to prepare us students for making non-sportsy robots?
That's a bold prediction.
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Perhaps it's part of a greater conspiracy to prepare us students for making non-sportsy robots?
FRC this year is free/cheap child labor for Dean Kamen to invent and patent warehouse automation robots based on this year's designs.

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Re: FRC 2015 Conspiracy?

Someone brought this up in a different thread, ever notice the sponsor on the yellow totes?

FedEx.

Seems a little too coincidental to me.
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Re: FRC 2015 Conspiracy?

This is a very interesting theory though I would like to see how the noodles and the recycle bins tie into it all.
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Re: FRC 2015 Conspiracy?

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This is a very interesting theory though I would like to see how the noodles and the recycle bins tie into it all.
They took a random item generator and used it to determine the third scoring part.

as for the cans,
the garbage dudes are in on this!
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Re: FRC 2015 Conspiracy?

Thinking of something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UxZDJ1HiPE
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Re: FRC 2015 Conspiracy?

What I find interesting is that the hardest task is recycling. Which I assume is being promoted.
Plus their is a tacit admission that one cannot recycle everything. i.e. 10 litter per side = 20 litter and 10 recycling containers.

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Re: FRC 2015 Conspiracy?

I was thinking along those lines as well. Plus, look at the design of the robots in the article about Amazon's warehouses at
http://www.newsweek.com/amazon-revea...ehouses-288124. Looks fairly close in size to what FRC builds....
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Re: FRC 2015 Conspiracy?

Notice the bright yellow totes moving around.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zknLfU7GJIw
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