2007 FIRST Competition

[DanDon]

Originally Posted by Marcel

Oh and I think I pulled a muscle trying to figure out those pictures as a hint or as a teaser. I vote teaser!

What, they can't be both?

On another note, I've never had KK's before, so I wouldn't know which are better.

[Cynette]

Originally Posted by fnsnet

Heh, I know I'ma start a war here... but, DD's is so much better than KK.. IMHO... but that might just be 'cause I'm from New England.

:-P

Originally Posted by dhoizner

On another note, I've never had KK's before, so I wouldn't know which are better.

I'm not sure you can even compare KKs to DDs, its like comparing apples to oranges, yeah they are both fruit, BUT!
Maybe a sorting element, put the KKs in this goal and the DDs in this goal...

[Josh Murphy]

Guys this was started to talk about the 2007 FRC not which donuts are better. Obviously Dave is messing with your minds with the whole donut thing and if I had to guess by what he posted in the pictures next years game would have something to do with boxes.

[DanDon]

Originally Posted by Josh Murphy

Guys this was started to talk about the 2007 FRC not which donuts are better. Obviously Dave is messing with your minds with the whole donut thing and if I had to guess by what he posted in the pictures next years game would have something to do with boxes.

With FRC game hints/red herrings/whatever you want to call them, the obvious is never obvious.

[Marcel]

Or maybe who ever brings Dave the most donuts win?

Anyways it could maybe be something to do with boxes like 3 or 4 years ago? Or maybe a combination of boxes and last year...using boxes as projectiles. Or maybe the arena is a donut shape, so many possible options it's crazy.

[mrmummert]

Hi..

Hmmm could be both...Donuts do come in boxes.

But yes if we follow the use of elements over the years
it would seem logical that boxes would be used this coming year.

[Marcel]

Also by using logic from the past we can insinuate that we'll probably be wrong. If not wrong then we'll feel real stupid during the kickoff.

[mandraque]

the only thing i really hope is that our driver has improved...but hes only a sophmore now so thats what is expected of him.

[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by Marcel

Also by using logic from the past we can insinuate that we'll probably be wrong. If not wrong then we'll feel real stupid during the kickoff.

C'mon! This year I'm certain it's robotic ultimate frisbee. All the clues are there.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Peter Matteson

C'mon! This year I'm certain it's robotic ultimate frisbee. All the clues are there.

Aerobies are torroidal and would make excellent game pieces, IMO. But what would they be aimed at? Baskets? Nets? Some feature of your opponents' (or alliance partners') robots? Hmmm......

[Marcel]

Originally Posted by Richard

Aerobies are torroidal and would make excellent game pieces, IMO. But what would they be aimed at? Baskets? Nets? Some feature of your opponents' (or alliance partners') robots? Hmmm......

That's an excellent idea actually, each robot can have like a long shaft coming from the top (yeah let's be mature guys). And a shooter, the shafts would have to be a certain height or something, and then the robots would have to somehow launch the disks and have them land on these shafts, or sticks, and then which ever team with the least disks would win. I think that's a great idea. Yeah, the human players would throw the disks into these "goal poles" and it would be harder with the robots moving, or the human players could throw the disks into their own robots so the robots have more "ammo" for shooting.

Hm here's a couple of ideas, I actually think it could work. I'm thinking the foam disks toy gun for an ammo thing.

http://www.dansdata.com/images/shotb...hotpers560.jpg

http://www.firebox.com/pic/p409b.jpg

What do you all think?

[Greg Needel]

Originally Posted by Marcel

Also by using logic from the past we can insinuate that we'll probably be wrong. If not wrong then we'll feel real stupid during the kickoff.

hmmm...if everything we say is wrong all we need to do is say everything except what we want the game to be and then we will know what it is....wait, but if we do that then what we want it to be will be wrong....oh what troubles speculation puts us in.

[Marcel]

Hm I had a problem like this today in class, dimensional analysis. Wow that hurt like crazy. It was something like:

Pretend you work at a burger joint because in school you never learned about dimensional analysis you couldn't get a better job than what you have. You've been wrapping burgers for 35 years you earn $840 every two weeks, and you work 8 hours a day 5 days a week. How many burgers do you need to wrap in order to get your first million dollars. If you solve this problem you will have learn about dimensional analysis and therefor you'll quit your job and then get a better job but you then by quitting your answer will be wrong, so in order to be right you can't be right because then you'll be wrong so the only way to solve the problem is to be wrong and then you don't know the answer because you weren't right.

So it went something like that and it was a closed cycle. It was so confusing but then my teacher said that we'll pretend that if we get it right we won't quit the job therefor we can get the right answer. It was so weird.

But I got the answer right. Anyways what were you saying about robots?

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by Marcel

Hm I had a problem like this today in class, dimensional analysis. Wow that hurt like crazy. It was something like:

Pretend you work at a burger joint because in school you never learned about dimensional analysis you couldn't get a better job than what you have. You've been wrapping burgers for 35 years you earn $840 every two weeks, and you work 8 hours a day 5 days a week. How many burgers do you need to wrap in order to get your first million dollars. If you solve this problem you will have learn about dimensional analysis and therefor you'll quit your job and then get a better job but you then by quitting your answer will be wrong, so in order to be right you can't be right because then you'll be wrong so the only way to solve the problem is to be wrong and then you don't know the answer because you weren't right.

So it went something like that and it was a closed cycle. It was so confusing but then my teacher said that we'll pretend that if we get it right we won't quit the job therefor we can get the right answer. It was so weird.

But I got the answer right. Anyways what were you saying about robots?

I think my brain just went on strike...it's not warmed up enough, we aren't back in school yet.

[Marcel]

Lucky, two weeks so far.