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[bobbysq]

Originally Posted by ZacharyDiaz

Any thoughts of a way to make TwitchPlaysSTEAMworks happen?

If you had a program running on the Driver Station laptop that took in IRC inputs and emulated a joystick, you would be able to do it pretty well. You could also run an IRC client on the robot, set up the router to act as a bridge to a WiFi network connected to the internet, and run it as an autonomous program. (or bypass WPILib's safety entirely and put it in RobotInit if you wanted to get even less safe than this already will be) I would also recommend turning down the speed of the drivetrain so it doesn't get damaged by bumping into things.

You would need a fenced-in field to make it more safe, and you'll need an E-Stop button on hand. I assume you wouldn't have access to a FMS, so scoring would need to be done manually or by replicating the scoring system used by the game and hooking it up to an Arduino that sends serial to the streaming PC to update a scoreboard overlay on the stream if you wanted to.

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by ZacharyDiaz

Any thoughts of a way to make TwitchPlaysSTEAMworks happen?

I don't know if a similar thing will exist in STEAMWorks, but I always thought it would have been cool in Stronghold for the "Audience selection" to have been a digital vote with an app, and could incorporate votes from the stream chat as well. If there's a way to influence the field this year, having some kind of chat integration, even if it was a just-for-fun match and not an official competition match would be nifty.

I don't think driving an old FRC robot via Twitch chat would be smart (high chance of breaking the robot or someone getting hurt) but it would be neat to make some purpose-built robots with kit chassis and stuff and do Twitch-plays to control that. Maybe the chat only controls the drivebase, but a human controller does the other robot functions?

Heck..we're gonna have 11 Robot in 3 Days teams that will have functional robots by next Tuesday. Let's drive those!

[wjd13]

WE MADE IT TO THE FRONT PAGE!!!!!

[Eugene Fang]

Originally Posted by wjd13

WE MADE IT TO THE FRONT PAGE!!!!!

"Got added to the front page," but yeah, close enough.

[bobbysq]

Chat is crazy... They need to add more mods

(I also got a 10 minute ban for warning people of the certain cad company's spoilers)

[sergeydgr8]

With all this talk about steam, is this the water game we've all been waiting for????

[sergeydgr8]

So we got steam and flying. Water game with drones?

[Foster]

Originally Posted by bobbysq

Chat is crazy... They need to add more mods

(I also got a 10 minute ban for warning people of the certain cad company's spoilers)

And why did you feel the need to warn people about the spoilers? The correct move would to have been kept quiet on your own for 10 minutes.

I want to say thanks FIRST and Twitch for doing the captioned stream. I wasn't in a position to listen, but was able to read/watch. +1 for this, do it next year too!