MAR Competitions

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Stab in the dark:

There might be enough ferrous crap on an FRC robot (mostly motors) that you could detect crossing by change in magnetic field inducing current in a wire. Wire coils under each defense ramp (in and out) and watch transitions.

Better solution would be some sort of RFID chip on robot (passive) with readers under the ramps to ensure it's one bot doing the crossing. Could possibly do this with the existing radio infrastructure but that's beyond my skill set to quickly figure out.


Or, dumb question: 6 refs, 6 bots... one ref per bot. Like most teams scouting do.

To be clear we need FIRST to execute it.
I think it can be done technically, but will FIRST go along and do it?
I have no reasonable expectation I can control how FIRST decides to do it (or even if).
If this is a money thing, and surely it is in part a money thing, let's figure out how much cause that interested parties can work out.