The Third Grand Challange

[Nawaid Ladak]

As you may have remembered, there was a PBS/NOVA documentory on thie Grand Challange, a atonomus race across the desert. (Torrent removed by mod) well they have a new challange

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/05/03/da...rbanchallenge/

Any first teams considering to compeate, or help out one of the local teams.

Looks like i might have something to do douring the offseason.

What do you guys think

[Pavan Dave]

1 word... SWEET..

Lol we should get some first teams together... brainstorm... combine funding....work on together...win 2M and split between the teams that worked together XD

lol...

cause with all of our mentors and us we would DOMINATE.. and to govn't would wanna hire All of us...

Pavan

[Ken Leedle]

I think that race through a city would be much more difficult than a desert. Rocks and bushes don't move, now imagine trying to merge with traffic. The video processing would have to be absolutely amazing to distinguish stop signs, traffic signals, turn signals, brakelights, from the tons of store signs all along the street. Also, there is a lot more potential danger and cost from a collision. It will be interesting to see what people come up with.

[Greg Needel]

first of all search before you post. http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ht=DARPA+grand


also the idea of a multi team DGC entry has been thrown around before and there is even a sub-forum on chiefdelphi dedicated to it. http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=92


As a lead on a DGC team i must tell you that the work involved in this is quite high. Myself and team mates were working full time during the winter of 2005 to build this car and we didn't get nearly as far as we wished. I encourage teams to work on autonomous development and off season events but the DGC might be too high. Also with the event being in November of 2008 you will basically have to skip a FIRST season to be involved with this event seriously. The costs, time, effort, and skills required for this event are much higher then FIRST and while going and working with a team and getting involved is a great way to learn about things. Starting your own team is probably a mistake. Besides you are already at least 3+ years behind.

If you want another opinion from someone else who was involved Kevin Watson also was.


*this message was not to discourage people from trying it was just meant to bring people back down to reality.

[Nawaid Ladak]

Well Sorry about not searching.... I started typeing that post up at 7AM yesterday, and i totally forgot about it in my 20 tabs on FireFox, so i ended up posting that late, So sorry about that. I also ended up posting some useful info, like a TORRENT FILE OF THE NOVA DOC.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by FreedomForce

I also ended up posting some useful info, like a TORRENT FILE OF THE NOVA DOC.

Yeah guys. Lets steal the works of a public service who have already had their limited budget cut.