We did gloves FIRST?

[Brant Bowen]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

As far as innovations in OI controls, I would guess that you are the first to drive your robot without a joystick of some type (although some teams have used racing wheels in the past). However, you aren't the first to use a glove of any type (but you already know that).

Some notable FIRSTs in OI controls that I know of:

FIRST minature replica arm for control: team 308 in 2000
FIRST glove: 234 in 2001
DDR pads: 2003, sorry don't know the team

Personally, I think your stickers sound cute. If someone were to complain again, I would have your teammates explain why your glove systems are different, and also explain the pun to the humor impaired.

One final note on the judges. They often aren't involved in FIRST for any more time then just the regional they are judging at. Thus they have a very limited realm of which they are aware of. That's one reason why you occasionally see teams get awards for something that's been done many times before, etc.

We had a whole arm mechanism in a backpackthat the driver wore. As she moved her elbow the robot moved its elbow. At the end I beleive there was a handle which controlled how open and closed the gripper was. I don't think there was a glove on it, but that was the year before I started, so I could be wrong.

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