Varied color light trick...

[Booger]

Originally Posted by thegathering

The green light the announcer guy showed us just before the final round started flashing green, red, and blue with variable speed flashes; and he suggested that the multi colored light would be implemented in next year's match (perhaps for targetting/scoring which certain teams could score with one extra mode which both or neither teams could score).

That what you were looking for?

Yeah thanks alot

[Kellen Hill]

Just because of the pattern in past years the game piece should be a box of some sort right? If it is does anyone have any game ideas for lights and boxes?

[thegathering]

Originally Posted by hill

Just because of the pattern in past years the game piece should be a box of some sort right? If it is does anyone have any game ideas for lights and boxes?

I think it would be funnay if they implemented some form of redlight/greenlight

[LordTalps]

Originally Posted by thegathering

I think it would be funnay if they implemented some form of redlight/greenlight

That would be more fun for the programmers than the rest of the Robotics teams

[Jon K.]

Originally Posted by hill

Just because of the pattern in past years the game piece should be a box of some sort right? If it is does anyone have any game ideas for lights and boxes?

There is no true pattern, see years prior to 03. I know at least from 2000-2002 was all balls, 2003 Sterilite Bins, 2004 back to balls, 2005 Tetrahedrons, 2006 balls. So as you can see there is no real patter, I know in other years there have been things like "floppies" which were round fabric discs filled with packing peanuts, there have been inner tubes before as well. So you never know what to expect in FIRST, although a box with a light in it would be rather interesting...

[Arefin Bari]

This is a very interesting thread.

over the past 5 years, I have learned not to listen to anything Dave says before the kickoff or any rumor I hear that involves Dave. I am saying this now, but I am probably going to go nuts when he starts messing with our head again this fall.

[RoboMadi]

Originally Posted by Arefin Bari

This is a very interesting thread.

over the past 5 years, I have learned not to listen to anything Dave says before the kickoff or any rumor I hear that involves Dave. I am saying this now, but I am probably going to go nuts when he starts messing with our head again this fall.

I don't know about you, but he already did that with me. Last time i saw him at the Smithsonian, he was wandering around our Walker Project. After a while he came back and told me that he just talked to Woodie and we just gave him an idea for next years game.
Since then, I've been walking around the Baby Walker trying to figure out what the heck is going to happen, and what part interested him the most.

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by hill

Just because of the pattern in past years the game piece should be a box of some sort right? If it is does anyone have any game ideas for lights and boxes?

Yes.

Originally Posted by Arefin Bari

I am saying this now, but I am probably going to go nuts when he starts messing with our head again this fall.

Why wait?

-dave

[StephLee]

Oh my, it's started already...break out the Advil and straightjackets, everyone.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by StephLee

Oh my, it's started already...break out the Advil and straightjackets, everyone.

Remember when Dave dropped a clue, and CD posters analyzed it day and night until we went berserk?
Well, he did it all again and then the angst got worse and worse and now you see we've gone completely out of our minds, and ... (sirens)
They're coming to take me away, ha ha,
They're coming to take me away, hee hee,
Ho ho, ha ha,
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time,
And I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats,
And they're coming to take me away!

[JaneYoung]

^ Paisley would calm everything down nicely.

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Last I heard, the folks in FIRST Engineering were working on making the paisley and plaid filters for the lights work properly. The potential implications, should they succeed, are enormous.

-dave

"Oh no sir, they've gone plaid!"

Coming soon to a theatre near you in early 2007: FIRSTballs, The Movie!

[Alexa Stott]

Originally Posted by Jon K.

There is no true pattern, see years prior to 03. I know at least from 2000-2002 was all balls, 2003 Sterilite Bins, 2004 back to balls, 2005 Tetrahedrons, 2006 balls. So as you can see there is no real patter, I know in other years there have been things like "floppies" which were round fabric discs filled with packing peanuts, there have been inner tubes before as well. So you never know what to expect in FIRST, although a box with a light in it would be rather interesting...

Perhaps mailboxes with lights in them?

[Dan Zollman]

I know this wasn't included in the joke-clue at championships, but this seems to point directly to a fourth color: Red, blue, and green are in that picture--but also yellow.

[JaneYoung]

Just so I know,
how - bad - do Dave's clues get?