Woodie's Game Hint @ Atlanta

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by Jim E

There are going to be autonomous moving game pieces with a beacon that you robot must catch and place in a wheel to score.. Human players will release them and once they stop ( think wind-up toys) they don't count.

The bit about "once they stop, they don't count" reminds me somewhat of musical chairs. I wonder how musical chairs could be incorporated into an FRC game...maybe autonomous mode would be at a random time during the game? Say, once some kind of music starts playing, the teams know they have five or ten seconds to get into position for the start of autonomous mode. Hmm...

[alex1699]

i rember that in the 2007 rule book we couldn't use gerbils to power the robot. im sure you all said something about that. so i think we will need to power the robot with gerbils this year..

which is good so we don't need to charge a battery.

or we might need to to some how turn some thing to make power
how?
jello= suger
gerbil+ wheel= generator
and
stock market= cash= power
and k'nex blocks = the thing we need to turn?
???

[alex1699]

one last thought were the gerbils and be got to build some thing with knex and it could wobble like jello or crash like the stock market.
that it and i no it ha!!!

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by alex1699

one last thought were the gerbils and be got to build some thing with knex and it could wobble like jello or crash like the stock market.
that it and i no it ha!!!

I never could knex with or put much stock in the gerbil idea. It seemed a little shakey but once the wheel's in motion, you never know.

[Branden Gee]

hey, what if knex is a play on words, and we have to knext of k'nect or connect objects together?

-Gee

[Cuog]

No gerbil power I think has been in the rules for a while as sort of comic relief and to stress the point of no animal cruelty I think.

[popo308]

Interesting, I would have to go with the concept that the game pieces are going to be unstable like jello... they will be either moving around or changing throughout the game... The gerbils i think would have to be a gerbil wheel or something similar. As far as the Knex go i would have to say the game involves taking unstable objects and putting them together like Knex...



Just some thoughts...

[drakesword]

lets see here. . .

jello
jello is mostly sugar and water
sugar
sugar can be converted into energy
energy
e=mc^2
c sea
ther are 7 seas
7
7 is the jackpot in casinos
casino
a casino is just like the stock market
stock market
the stock market is basicly a place where people rob each other
AH HA
thats it
next years challenge is to build a robot to rob banks and bring the money to Woodie's safety deposit box

BRILLIANT i will get started RIGHT NOW

[ZeZoReX]

Hmm... Well that would be weird. If what you're saying is true... You have to buid a fast robot to beat this Challange.

[ShadowofaCat]

actually, after reading this thread i didnt have TOO many ideas on my own
so i asked a friend with no robotics affiliation to give his best deliberation

"Just be careful about the stock market, with jello, gerbils, and K'nex blocks."

"
stock market has ups and downs
jello would slow you down
gerbils are frantic and can do anything spontaneously
well for k'nex you have to build stuff really fast
"

hmmmmmm...
it actually makes sense to me!

[njamietech]

ok heres my idea

What if the field was a pool (water would represent jello in the hint as jello is mostly water) and in the center of the rectangular pool is a wall. Now on that wall are bullseye targets with 5 lights above them. These lights represent the point value of the target. Teams would score on these targets by shooting ping pong balls at them. this wall would be double sided of course and the alliance on the other side is trying to do the same thing. now the trick to this is that the targets are always changing their values so that you have to shoot rather quickly to hit them at their top score. (this represents the stock market)

Now to make it more difficult there are 3 floating orbs that make it more difficult for the teams to move around. (these represent the gerbils). these orbs would be repositioned every match.

The scoring structure would look like Knex (self explanitory).

Now to protect the field crews, the battery on the robots would have to be on top. that way if the robot sinks the battery isn't wet. a gfci tripper would be mandatory on the robots. also poles at the base of the robot prevent the robot from tipping over and getting the battery wet.

a possible bonus would be that teams would have to drive to a ramp and hook on to a hook that would pull the robot up out of the water. if the team gets all three up they get the bonus.

i forgot to add that for saftey reasons the pool would have to be a certain depth so that if the robot sinks the battery at the top wont get wet.

(please note this is just a fantasy of mine not actually truth)

Anyway thats just my idea.

[sleeping143]

How about the gerbil clue being that we will need to build a robot with legs? That could be really cool. And they did emphasise those various legged robots in their presentations in atlanta. There was a video about a robotic cockroach, there was the hex bug challenge, etc. It would open up a lot of possibilities for game design, too.

[65_Xero_Huskie]

Originally Posted by sleeping143

How about the gerbil clue being that we will need to build a robot with legs? That could be really cool. And they did emphasise those various legged robots in their presentations in atlanta. There was a video about a robotic cockroach, there was the hex bug challenge, etc. It would open up a lot of possibilities for game design, too.

Im going with either...

1. A wheel you have to use/interact with

2. Or balls as the game piece.

[Chief Samwize]

My guess...

Stock market rises and falls (possibly stacking)
Gerbils like in a cage shaped like a box.
Jello comes in a box.
K'nex BLOCKS.

It seems as though we could see a return of stack attack maybe?

-Sam

[hipsterjr]

Originally Posted by Chief Samwize

My guess...

Stock market rises and falls (possibly stacking)
Gerbils like in a cage shaped like a box.
Jello comes in a box.
K'nex BLOCKS.

It seems as though we could see a return of stack attack maybe?

-Sam

That's brilliant I think you might be right. It has been awhile since we worked with boxes.