Concerns regarding the green paneling/green shirts

[Petey]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

According to the rule, the way it is currently written, is that you can't keep changing it's color to give you an advantage, but it doesn't say you can't have a green robot that you built as a green robot during the six weeks.

Mmmm...chameleon robot.

I'm definitely asking FIRST this.

--Petey

[billbuckner]

I will be VERY suprised if they didn't think of this.

[karinka13]

I'm already VERY surprised they didn't use some other kinda sensor...like radio waves...or something

[MrToast]

Originally Posted by karinka13

I'm already VERY surprised they didn't use some other kinda sensor...like radio waves...or something

Problem with that is you would have to have some sort of radio transmitter device on the Tetra (or some other such device to broadcast "I'm here!"). I know for a fact that the Tetras are going to see some heavy abuse; much more than the balls did last year. It probably wouldn't bode well for a transmitter to undergo a lot of shaking and movement. Likewise, it would be much more expensive.

Dave

[kevin.fort]

Originally Posted by MrToast

Problem with that is you would have to have some sort of radio transmitter device on the Tetra (or some other such device to broadcast "I'm here!"). I know for a fact that the Tetras are going to see some heavy abuse; much more than the balls did last year. It probably wouldn't bode well for a transmitter to undergo a lot of shaking and movement. Likewise, it would be much more expensive.

Dave

Wouldnt it be a good srategy to make your robot the color of the tetras so that all the other robots got messed up. if it really is that easy tyhen there can be some serious problems that result from that.

also i think the goal of the software is to focus on one thing and then follow that so maybe if you dont ask it to reaquire green or whatever in the middle of the run it would do just fine

[Petey]

Originally Posted by kevin.fort

Wouldnt it be a good srategy to make your robot the color of the tetras so that all the other robots got messed up. if it really is that easy tyhen there can be some serious problems that result from that.

also i think the goal of the software is to focus on one thing and then follow that so maybe if you dont ask it to reaquire green or whatever in the middle of the run it would do just fine

I'm less worried about that than I am about my robot leaping bodily out of the ring and throttling me if it confused my blue shirt with a blue tetra.

--Petey