Finally the year?

[mechanicalbrain]

hah i dont NEED sleep! ill sleep when im dead! actually i have a screwy sleeping schedule, i sleep 4AM until 3PM.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by mechanicalbrain

name a city that doesnt have a swiming pool where there is a FIRST team! and i guarentee that any robot that fits regulation sizes can be submersed in a bathtub. most note i say most cities have bathtubs.

That's definitely untrue I haven't seen any 5 foot deep bathtubs lately.

A hotel isn't going to let a group of kids run a robot around in a pool guests pay to use.

[CmptrGk]

I have deleted and edited at least one of my posts because it seems obvious that i am not getting my point across. I would like to aplologize if i offended anyone in the process of trying to get my point across.

[mechanicalbrain]

in answer to the first if we did underwater robots the dimensions would not be 5 ft tall. also you can get premission to use pools for specific times. ive seen crazy things (once saw a boat compitition at a westin. no joke!). also their are plenty of underwater cometitions and people in those compititions manage it. and i doupt anyone was bothered were just being overly literal with our translation. basically i know that if you really needed a large mass of water you would find a way. its one of the great things about FIRST we always find a way.

[CmptrGk]

Originally Posted by mechanicalbrain

ive seen crazy things (once saw a boat compitition at a westin. no joke!).

i bet they rented the use of the pool

[Arefin Bari]

Originally Posted by CmptrGk

I have deleted and edited at least one of my posts because it seems obvious that i am not getting my point across. I would like to aplologize if i offended anyone in the process of trying to get my point across.

I don't think you have offended anyone, you have pointed out the obvious. Many teams might not have the resources to test their underwater robot during the season. All we can do now is wait till January when Dave will finally tell us the game. He does this EVERY YEAR. He gives us few clues and then makes us pull our hair off while he goes through the KKs.

[mechanicalbrain]

yeah but most teams dont have access to something. our team only has a wood shop! we use hacksaws to cut through alluminum! we had to do major saving to get our hands on what little metal tools we have yet some teams have access to welders and forges.

[Jeff K.]

Well...here's my two cents on next year's game.

We will have to design and build robots that can lift large crates filled with water and drive them using some kind of ball drive to cross a small "brook" or stream and the field is in a big L where you only need to make a left turn. For the "66", the height limit will be changed to 66", or 5'6".

I don't know....just my two cents...
...I think I might need some sleep...long day.

[mechanicalbrain]

i still hold with the idea that FIRST is sicking with their logo. we did circles, squares, triangles and now we will move giant FIRST's around. (this is a shared opinion) as to this thread i would like to know how people would manipulate objects underwater!

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by mechanicalbrain

name a city that doesnt have a swiming pool where there is a FIRST team!

Anchorage, Alaska.

[mechanicalbrain]

hey someone right next door! (im in Reston) funny thing i had this exact question for a friend because im going to Alaska later this sumer and aparently heated indoor pools are popular in Alaska.

[Veselin Kolev]

Oh man... the physics involved... so much to do with that... fluid friction, hydrodynamics, waterproofing... that would be heaven for me.

Anyway, all public high schools have a 12 food swimming pool dont they? And there are like... 10 public high schools within 20 miles of me, so that part is no problem.

Also, lots of teams that do the national underwater robotics competition use IFI controllers. The team that won this year had an IFI controller, in a suitecase. Literally. And those that read that article in WIRED magazine know what else was in the suitcase, to solve their little leak problem.

[mechanicalbrain]

hehe yeaaaah... if we were to do underwater robots i think i would look for my inspiration with animals like otters (i saw them swim in real life and it was pretty cool)

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Ashley Christine

It is 3:30 in the morning and I find myself trying to figure out some clues with Laura 1547. 1)I dont have a life and 2)This is killing me! I want to know whats going on next year sooo bad... only not. I guess we all will learn someday.

And deffinately stuck on what 66 could mean. Haha. Maybe I shud go to bed...

Shouldn't you be utalizing that "free time" comming up with more ideas for the Rah Cha CHa Ruckus?
Back to work, missy!

Perhaps thats what the judges where saying at championships regarding the camera and the gyro being really important in next years game, to the point that it is critical for robot to work. From what I remember he mentioned that next years camera will be much more sophisticated.

My only question is.. does a gyro measure three dimentional space?