My hints and guess on the Game in 2004!

[rees2001]

Originally posted by Rich Wong
Wow, you can......... and ........have the ....... in the ...... and .....with them DRUMS!

Or you can also ...... with the ....size.... then ......with them DRUMS!

you read my mind

[Guilherme]

I don´t know about the game, but I BET there´s going to be a HUGE autonomous period, with difficult things to do.

All that because the C programming and it´s float points... ah.. I don´t know... calculating PI to measure distance between things, making exact calculations... there´s some point in that for sure...

[Arefin Bari]

Originally Posted by Joe

I don´t know about the game, but I BET there´s going to be a HUGE autonomous period, with difficult things to do.

All that because the C programming and it´s float points... ah.. I don´t know... calculating PI to measure distance between things, making exact calculations... there´s some point in that for sure...

but think about it... there are going to be a lot of rookie teams... who has never experienced FIRST... they may not even have a very good programming skill.... i think that the autonomous time period will be almost as same as last year...

[miketwalker]

Originally Posted by Joe

All that because the C programming and it´s float points... ah.. I don´t know... calculating PI to measure distance between things, making exact calculations... there´s some point in that for sure...

I disagree. To have high accuracy, you need to have highly accurate motors and sensors as well. For most cases, your right... the new robot controller is nearly (afraid to say this word for reprucussions) infinite for the typical needs of a team. However, designing systems will always limit you. For example, look at WildStang's StangPS and I believe some other teams had similar systems.. they had a system to automatically drive their robots to specific "checkpoints" during autonomous and know where they were. Yes, they used a microchip controller on top of the stamp controller, but this year... we all have the controller... it just depends on how long you'll spend in the design of systems to create input to the robot controller to be worked with. This year's controller is VERY powerful, but I don't think FIRST is going to force all teams to have to design pretty complicated systems such as the StangPS, at least not this year... I think they will give us at least this year to get settled in with the new language, and any curves they might throw into autonomous if the rumors of autonomous being at the end or middle are true, those already will encourage more designing. Anymore would be too much for this year. Just my thoughts, anyone be glad to pop in and tell me I'm wrong on something though lol.