What are you going to do to your Human player?

[FreakyAntelope]

Originally Posted by Jake177

I agree. The "automated" loading stations seem much more efficient for getting tetras. If you can design something to pick up a tetra put on your robot by a human player, you can probably design something to take the tetras off of the stands on the other side of the field.

I actually took that to mean that he was intending to just have a human player that could reach really far...

What? No, really! :-D

- Toby

[Joshua May]

Originally Posted by greencactus3

so basketball people might be the best choice.

Maybe the HP could just shoot tetras onto the robot? We'll just re-use our HPs from 2004 in that case.

[Billfred]

Negative. No throwing tetras.

(source: the manchester kickoff--wasn't that Dave?)

[Goobergunch]

Originally Posted by Billfred

Negative. No throwing tetras.

(source: the manchester kickoff--wasn't that Dave?)

Woodie, IIRC.

[Isabel Cole]

haha i don't think you need to TRAIN runners. i don't remember who said it but someone said they wont be running too far and the most important thing is to remain calm and collected. remember, the tetrads are not so light that you can run very quickly and come to an abrupt stop with. you'd want to be more careful. just make sure your 'runner' can lift it!

wouldn't want to be disqualified because of a human player after working so hard for 6 weeks on your robot, now would you?... just my two cents.

[EddieMcD]

Originally Posted by Billfred

Negative. No throwing tetras.

(source: the manchester kickoff--wasn't that Dave?)

And rule <G23>.

[Jay5780]

The thing I think you are all forgetting is that there are 3 HP's now with only two HP loading zones so only 2 Hp's will be loading at once max.

Also don't hurt yourselves, It's a game, have fun.

ps. I can see it now, The Blue Alliance is about to get this great score: In the final seconds your team is about to cap a goal and get these huge multipliers, but your HP is jumping with excitement and disables the bot... And your winner is Red.


Have a nice day.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Jay5780

The thing I think you are all forgetting is that there are 3 HP's now with only two HP loading zones so only 2 Hp's will be loading at once max.

Also don't hurt yourselves, It's a game, have fun.

ps. I can see it now, The Blue Alliance is about to get this great score: In the final seconds your team is about to cap a goal and get these huge multipliers, but your HP is jumping with excitement and disables the bot... And your winner is Red.


Have a nice day.

I think you'll see more teams mad at their human player than any other year in FIRST.

[Anchi]

in all honisty, i dont think our team will be using our HP's. we are aiming for being fully remote(and 60% automated) for our tetra dealings.

[Lucid]

Same, 1418 will have a human player that can remain calm and not move. We will have a particular system that cannot be turned off during the round, if we power off, then the system's memory clears. So our human player will probably be a large guy who cannot jump. He has a spine disorder because he is about 7' tall and it is really hard for him to jump. That and he isn't excitable and he's lazy. All this means that we have a person that can keep the pressure on the plate 100% of the time.

[Twstdkittie]

Originally Posted by Anchi

in all honisty, i dont think our team will be using our HP's. we are aiming for being fully remote(and 60% automated) for our tetra dealings.

Are you completely chucking the idea of using the hps? Cuz I wouldnt throw out the possibility. If anything were to go wrong, you would need a backup plan, and if you throw out ideas now, you won't be able to come up w/ them on the spot later when you need them.

[Jasmin]

Our team is very energetic, so I think our biggest problem won't be losing the stamina for dodging back and forth to place tetras, but actually standing still on the pads to keep the robot going. Definitely have to work on that!

[Deltafrog]

I think the refs wil probably not let us run for safety reasons.

[Heretic121]

we are going to have ours sit there unless needed =P

[Zanella BR]

Originally Posted by Kyle

I was just thinking of all the work the human player this year is going to do. They will have to be able to run very fast and if need repeadly so a team can keep loading there bot at the human loading zone.
My question to all the teams out there is:
Are you going to have your Human player practice running wind sprints and running with tetras the 10-16 ft? or whatever it is, or are you going to just let the one person who asks to do it?
this year there is going to be a lot of running by the human player back and forth over and over agian and if the human gets tired out that is time that there bot is turned off.

That's a importante point, it's better to choose a athlete
Specially with that heavy tetras....