pic: Game hint

[vivek16]

Originally Posted by blakcheez

It IS the game piece!!! First team to destroy it with it's IR beam wins. Bonus points to the first alliance who can clean up the tiny fragments. Good luck, volunteers. No special handling instructions will be sent. God Speed.

lol... wouldn't a concentrated flame thrower be considered an IR "beam"? sweet.

[legomaster3945]

im so happy yet sad
i have to wait another day for game hint because it was just anounced we have no school tommorow
but im happy cus of no school
now i get another day to ponder bout the hint for a whole day

[blaxbb]

Originally Posted by vivek16

lol... wouldn't a concentrated flame thrower be considered an IR "beam"? sweet.

i don't think Most Innovative Flamethrower Design is part of the message FIRST is trying to send

[Chaos Marine]

so this is the offical game hint hmmm. What to do? what to do?? time to sound the alarms boys and girls its time to turn your motors on and get to thinkin how we are going to do this. Now that this is step 1, what will be step 2?...

[Arefin Bari]

Originally Posted by Chaos Marine

what will be step 2?...

... sleep for the next 20 days. =)

[sishu7]

Don't laugh at me!

[vivek16]

hope for a riddle as a second gaem hint.

-vivek

[sishu7]

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[1359th Scalawag]

From what I read on the First website about it, it seems to be a remote-sensor. They say it can be used with universal remotes and such. First thing that comes to mind, is that you would install one of these in your garage door to be able to open it with a remote. Other possibilities could be televisions or whatever.

But a guess to what the game could be about: Each team's human player gets a remote which can only open one door (or possibly do some other things) And they could open and close that door for whatever strategic reasons... And that's as great of a guess you're ever gonna get out of me.

[Frank Neuperger]

Perhaps game pieces will have IR emiters and the points earned depends on which peice you capture/deposit/neutralize. i.e. 4 different points values.. one for each code. This device can help you sort out or decide which game piece to go after.

[BanksKid]

Originally Posted by Simon Strauss

We are given a rainbow ribbon wire for an infrared receiver, am i the only one who thinks the absence of ultra violet means something?

perhaps ultra violet is supposed to clue us to some sort of sun related theme or game piece.

ultra violet isn't a directly visible frequency of the emag spectrum.

[JBotAlan]

Since I was bored today by the snow day (and it's only 8:30 am...) I whipped up a driver for this board in case we end up needing to put it on the robot.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=60170

JBot

[T3_1565]

lucky you for snow days I can't even get on delphi for more than the time I'm on it right now lol. at least you can think about the game hint

[wilsonmw04]

so from what i've read, either there is going to be a new way of controlling our robots this year or some sort of IR emitter will be part of the game. here's the questions i have:
1. Why would they send us "teaching instructions" if the IR frequencies are going to be controlled by the field?
2.If IR is going to be a field element, are we going to be use the remotes for practice?
3. Why hasn't my team received ours yet??

[Stephen Kowski]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

OK, so since I was bored, and looking at the pic of the board for quite some time.. I decided to google some random things and see what I can find.

The order of the D codes above the LED's is D2, D5, D4, D3 & then D1.

I wouldn't think too hard on this, almost every electrical engineering software product just autonumbers depending on which Diode you place first. They aren't "D-codes" it is just how you represent Diode1 and Diode2 on a schematic.