in the pits

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Originally Posted by Zippiot

i have a few questions about wut we can "play with" in the pits. some of them are given nos but i just wanna check
first off -(A)- can me make a tiny robot (like a 1 foot square bot) equipped with a camera to drive around the pits, we wud steer it from a monitor at our pit, and possibly record it and such.

the next few im sure arent allowed but i wanna be sure:
-(B)- can we fly a r/c blimp with a camera to get a birds eye view of the pits?
-(C)- can we put giant green halogens on our bot to distract the sensors on other bots?
-(D)- can we use a hovercraft (made on many small hover "pods") to transport our robot, the hovercrafts will make it extremely easy to move and such. actually at nationals we saw little tug robots used to pull their main bot so i think this one might be allowed.
-(E)- can we have a camera on the bot that records battles ,wireless it transmits to our pit where we will have a tv/vcr.
if i think of anything else ill post it...

I Labled them to make it a lil easier to help answer...

-(A)- No this would be a hazard to people moving through the pits and could create some problems.

-(B)- If it contains helium then no, your cant bring helium into FIRST events, its a hazard. Otherwise, maybe but you'll have to clear the camera with FIRST Staff prior to using it.

-(C)- No this is against multiple rules and please see this thread: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=32226

-(D)- I dont know about this, if it is going to be hazardous you probablly will be asked not to use it. I would say test it out make sure its not going to cause any problems and bring a push cart so if you are asked to not use it, you have a backup plan.

-(E)- Like question B, you would have to clear this with FIRST Staff prior to use on the bot, it would have to be fed to a seperate area where recoding can be done off of and it cant be a 900MHz transmission. Check with team 100 about this they have had a camera on their bot before.

Hope some of this helps...