Question of the Week!!! (7/26/04)

[Kyle Love]

I think we need to go back to the beginning and have a field of corn. I know that sounds wierd but it might be kind of cool. It would most likely require a drivebase without the regular tires. In the middle, or somewhere, there should be some other type of substance. (Could be ice, grass, tile or keep it with the carpet.) My other idea for a new field surface is the type of tile schools usually use.(Big waxed tiles) That would make the field slipery like ice but hard like regular tiles. I think that would be fun to see robots on slipery surfaces!
-Kyle

[dubious elise]

Sand... the texture changes almost constantly as it is driven over aaaaand you have to deal with the ever-present danger of small particles getting into electrical equipment.

muahahahaaaa

[Jay H 237]

How about a ball pit like at Chuck-E-Cheeze or having rollers (like on a conveyor) made out of PVC pipe? This wouldn't cover the whole field but instead form a "hazard area" that you could either try avoiding or designing a robot to deal with it. This would partially divide the field and your score could be partially based on how long it takes you to get across the field. You would either take the "scenic route" and avoide these but lose points or if your robot is capable ignore the hazards and go staight across.

Or I still like the snow idea. Nothing like seeing a robot on skis or a snowboard For the southern and southwest teams don't worry, we have plenty of snow up here and we'd be happy to ship you as much as you want. I might even try to convince those in New Hampshire to include snow in the KOP for you too!

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

How about a ball pit like at Chuck-E-Cheeze

AHHHHHH!! You stole my idea.. lol I guess great minds think alike.. lol

Anyways, the other thing I was thinking and I know it's been said before, is velcro. I like that concept.. I would divide the playing field into zones (circa: 2002) and make 3 zones the hooking material and 2 zones the soft material.
It would be very hard to gain traction on either of the materials that make up velcro, unless you have the mating surface as wheels, which would be dissalowed if I designed the game rules, just because...

[Jon K.]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

How about a ball pit like at Chuck-E-Cheeze or having rollers (like on a conveyor) made out of PVC pipe?

I like this idea. Only instead of one or the other make it so that the ball pit is right next to the pvc conveyor, and have the teams have to go through both, and figure out some game around it. Like they have to get a certain object off the conveyor and bring it back to a base or something like that.

Originally Posted by Kyle45

I think we need to go back to the beginning and have a field of corn. I know that sounds wierd but it might be kind of cool. It would most likely require a drivebase without the regular tires. In the middle, or somewhere, there should be some other type of substance. (Could be ice, grass, tile or keep it with the carpet.) My other idea for a new field surface is the type of tile schools usually use.(Big waxed tiles) That would make the field slipery like ice but hard like regular tiles. I think that would be fun to see robots on slipery surfaces!
-Kyle

Rok on! ya that would be so cool if it went back to the beginning with the corn stuff again. I think theysum year they should definetly do that again. I also think that ice would be cool too. slippery lol itd be tough. The carpet seems to boring haha

[dubious elise]

ooh, one more medium....jello!

it's mushy and wobbly - yet solid at the same time!!!