Team Update 1 Posted

[pwnageNick]

Originally Posted by Cory

And then there's the majority of us who just want to make sure we're practicing in as close to real conditions as possible and want to make sure we know how the sorter/counter affects that.

I'm pretty sure this is FIRST signaling they're not confident their design works yet and they don't want a ton of people complaining when they build said design and it isn't robust.

This sounds about right.

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

The two boilers are giant fuel hoppers and the GDC has designed a system to remove ALL fuels from these hoppers at a rate of 5 per second. In a controlled enough fashion to accurately count them. I guarantee you there are teams that would LOVE to have details of this design so they can iterate on it and shave weeks off their design time.

If this is what the statement is referring to (which I believe it is) and it is something I would possibly want to build on my robot then it is effecting robot interaction.

Like Cory said, being able to build an accurate representation of the field is what most teams would like to get out of the drawings.

Also, off the top of my head, I can think of 33 from 2006 who had a similar spinning hopper similar to the boiler. Some info on their design is in the 2006 Design book that was published (similar to the ones that came in the kit last year about 2015 for those not around in 2006).