Official FIRST Stronghold Teaser!

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Oblarg

The day an FRC game requires the use of a camera is the day that a huge number of low-resource teams are completely screwed.

Originally Posted by EricH

Or, more to the point: teams that don't have time and programming resources for it. Particularly the programming resources. Think you (reader) don't know any of those teams? You're probably wrong.

As I recall, one of the game design requirements has historically been that ALL resource levels need to be able to play the game.

http://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s/...an-axis-camera

http://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s/...smartdashboard

If the camera and appropriate guidance is provided in the kit, it wouldn't be an issue. Will there still be teams that show up to events without it working? Of course, we have teams that show up with robots that can't drive as it is. But this is an issue that can be worked through in the pits on practice day, not some unmountable obstacle.

To be clear, I'm not endorsing any theories that cameras will be required to play this game. But getting video feedback to your driver's station is not difficult or resource intensive.