pic: Game hint

[Doug G]

Ok it's taken me like 5 days to catch up with this post, whew... Here's my thoughts...

1. It's not going on the Field. If it were on the field what are 1500 teams going to use to interface with it on their practice fields? It would still require another controller and such to hook up to this board so it could actually do something like release an object or control a servo. Perhaps they will give us another circuit setup in the KOP, but I think that is a stretch.

2. It will be a part that can go on the robot that will give your robot more information about the field. I like the ideas folks have mentioned about each corner having an emitter.

3. Perhaps this a clue that we'll finally have an autonomous period at the end of a game. If each corner is emitting a unique IR signal, then robot could determine which way to go home for a bonus score or something.

4. It will be as optional to use as the camera has been the last few years. While as cool as this is, there will be many teams at a lost on how to efficiently interface this in their robot or game strategy.