pic: Game hint

[Anamn3sis]

For anyone who hasn't received their board yet, here is a Hi-Res gallery if you want to inspect it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9051550...7603516542645/

[Mr_I]

Forgive me for not having read 40 pages of comments yet, but I just got the IR receiver today (drat snow days!)

Could it be that alliance robots will have the ability do communicate with each other?

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by Mr_I

Forgive me for not having read 40 pages of comments yet, but I just got the IR receiver today (drat snow days!)

Could it be that alliance robots will have the ability do communicate with each other?

While it is possible, I doubt thats what they will be used for. Each reciever can only interpret 4 IR signals and they are easily jammed. This makes for very limited and dodgy communications.

If they are on the robot (my belief) then most likely there will be 4 phases to the game and the field will emit the IR signals defining what phase it is in.

[emusteve]

So here's a new thought...
FIRST sends us a sensor with a hunk of pretty rainbow ribbon cable. Does this mean we can go back to sane wiring practices like using ribbon cable to wire our sensors, rather than being restricted to using big hunky 24awg or larger stuff? After all, they've been giving us 30awg PWM splitters all these years.

Steve