2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

[tfedullo]

I'm sorry to burst your bubbles, but i think the banana may just be a reference to Dave's production company, as seen in the 2005 triple play animation, of coarse it could be both

[Arkorobotics]

I love this idea of cards, it would makes sense, but no, Banana on the 07 hint, and montana may work but no.. hmmm.. but I still think we haven't hit it. There is something that is so obvious but we haven't figured it out yet.

[teamtestbot]

I love the people who came up with this hint. It seems that every part can be tied to every other part through at least one interpretation. Absolutely genius.

[Warren Boudreau]

I don't know is this has been noted yet. There are so many postings on this thread.

John Pasta is a computer scientist who is known in the physics community in relation with his contributions to chaos theory. His name appears in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem. To celebrate Pasta, many chaotic graphs are also called spaghetti graphs.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Warren Boudreau

I don't know is this has been noted yet. There are so many postings on this thread.

John Pasta is a computer scientist who is known in the physics community in relation with his contributions to chaos theory. His name appears in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem. To celebrate Pasta, many chaotic graphs are also called spaghetti graphs.

Awesome find. If this is the same John Pasta I am thinking of, he was a professor at a college/university who gives out awards in his honor which a possible fellow NASA Engineer that Lavery may know received.

More proof the world is smaller than we would like to think.

Search for NASA + Pasta (or John Pasta) and I'm sure you will be able to find the connection.

I saw it a few days back but lost it.

And I think I'm monopolizing this thread, so I'll back off for a while.


Oh, and I did know about the havabanana/2005 (& 2004's) animation splash screen, but everything is worth a second look when trying to solve problems, or riddles in this case.

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by teamtestbot

I love the people who came up with this hint. It seems that every part can be tied to every other part through at least one interpretation. Absolutely genius.

they probably finish designing the game in mid-august and spend the rest of the time comming up with the hint...

[Vaillancourt88]

Originally Posted by Bill Moore

Okay, who's willing to admit they treat their robot as a pet?

Nonsense!! I don't treat my pet that well!!

[Vaillancourt88]

I like the Ideas about the CMU cam and the fun noodles. However, can't the cam recognize other colors than green? seems like they would make visual targets a different color this year....

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by Vaillancourt88

I like the Ideas about the CMU cam and the fun noodles. However, can't the cam recognize other colors than green? seems like they would make visual targets a different color this year....

yes, but green is by far the easiest color for it to see (That's why the chose it last year) Also, FIRST wouldn't choose red or blue for obvious reasons...

[Eldarion]

Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

yes, but green is by far the easiest color for it to see (That's why the chose it last year) Also, FIRST wouldn't choose red or blue for obvious reasons...

But FIRST DID choose red and blue last year for the auto-loading stations!

Granted, there was no way the camera could see blue...

[Nuttyman54]

yes, but they didn't choose the loading station colors with the intention of having the cameras see it, though some teams may have attempted that...

[mom1155]

There is an Oracle printing utility called PASTA which is needed for double byte character sets and other special print functions. Does anyone see a potential application to the game?

[Ryan Foley]

here's something no one picked up on yet.

" 'bots" is a shorter version of the word "robots"

maybe they took my idea seriously.......

Originally Posted by Ryan Foley

Robot Size and Weight:
People are getting used to the current size restrictions. Why not be evil and go back to one of the older size resitrictions? Perhaps only 4ft tall robots, or something like that. It would certainly even out the playing field a bit, since few teams would have experience with smaller robots. Besides, smaller robots means you could put more robots on the field at a time (or just make 3v3 a little less crowded). Plus, smaller robots are easier to transport and move around.

[Nuttyman54]

that would be pretty neat acutally...it'd definitely level the playing field somewhat

[skimoose]

Does this have anything to do with the 'bots clue?

Found it on an MIT site. Hmmm, five steps in the image too. Are we back to stairs? Shover bots, is that a play on shovel? If not, angry shover bots must tangle.