**FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2

[jee7s]

Well, accounting for Magnetic Declination of 16 degrees West, that pushes the bearing to 326. That points toward the T-stop. Perhaps t-shaped peices?

Also, couldn't the GDC be sending this to us 342... hours before the kickoff as a timing mechanism.

[Bryan Herbst]

Originally Posted by Greg Needel

on google earth right at the coordinates is the Han tower, which is 344 meters tall. If you look at the roof of the building I believe it is a layout of the playing field....

This theory is one I'm starting to like more and more, judging by various people's height measurements, and the building's location. May not indicate what the field will be, but looks like an important part of the clue.



Additionally, many have pointed to things such as the Trinity Church, Globe Cafe, Copley square, etc. Anyone else notice that the FIRST logo is a Triangle, Circle, and Square? Could be a coincidence, but worth looking at.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Adam Y.

There really isn't anything there. All I can think of that is at Copley Square is:

1. Trinity Church
2. Finish Line
3. Boston Public Library
4. Fountain
5. Statues
6. John Hancock Tower
7. Farmers Market
8. Another church
9. Duck Boats

In the corner of the park nearest the intersection of Boylston and Dartmouth, across from the T station, there is a Bostix Kiosk. The Wikipedia article on Copely Square says this kiosk was built in 1992 -- the year FIRST competitions started. The kiosk has an interesting shape.

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by Greg Needel

on google earth right at the coordinates is the Hancock tower, which is 344 meters tall. If you look at the roof of the building I believe it is a layout of the playing field....

There seems to be what looks like a track on top of the building.
Hm? I have no idea what this means.

Maybe the GDC's just taking us around in circles...

[ChuckDickerson]

Trinity Church = Trinity = (from the Websters dictionary on my desk) "a set of three persons or things that form a unit."

Hmm, 3 team alliances again maybe?, 3 things that form a unit = Circle, Square, Triange. Maybe each robot on an alliance has to score a particular shape somehow determined by the IR receiver?

[imp]

Thinking clearly now- could it be a wavelength or frequency?

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by imp

Thinking clearly now- could it be a wavelength or frequency?

342 Hz is the low end of the vocal frequency range

[Laaba 80]

Originally Posted by DeepWater

Trinity Church = Trinity = (from the Websters dictionary on my desk) "a set of three persons or things that form a unit."

Hmm, 3 team alliances again maybe?, 3 things that form a unit = Circle, Square, Triange. Maybe each robot on an alliance has to score a particular shape somehow determined by the IR receiver?

I like this idea. It caould also mean that there are three alliances.

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

342 Hz is the low end of the vocal frequency range

Voice commands? Something "low"? Ack, I'm just trying to catch up with this thread...

[lukevanoort]

Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

As nice as that would be, it's a bad idea. Colorblind people would have a problem...

WARNING: Completely off-topic

This reminds me of build season last year. We were using CAT5 UTP for running our camera wires (and some of the other sensors too, I think) from our arm, through our turret, and back to the RC. Well, my Dad was labeling some of the wires prior to soldering and he happens to be red-green colorblind. For those that aren't familiar with it, CAT5 UTP has 8 wires in it, striped and solid color versions of the following: orange, green, blue, and brown. While there aren't any red-green pairings, orange and green apparently look the same to a colorblind individual.

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by Adam Y.

There really isn't anything there. All I can think of that is at Copley Square is:

1. Trinity Church
2. Finish Line
3. Boston Public Library
4. Fountain
5. Statues
6. John Hancock Tower
7. Farmers Market
8. Another church
9. Duck Boats

Duck boats???? I used to live a block away. Copley Square sure has changed if they now have duck boats in the fountains!
There used to be a great deli that was open until the wee hours. It was called...Hey, wait a second ....

[dtengineering]

Hmmm... wavelengths... good idea...

Here are the three numbers converted to their 64-bit floating point representation in binary:

01000000010010101001011001100100110101111111000011 101101001111011
11000000010110001110001001101111001011101000110000 000100100001011
01000000011110101011000111101111101010110101001111 010110010000010

and hex:

40452CC9AFE1DA7B
C051C4DE5D18090B
407563DF56A7AC82

using this calculator.


I was hoping for a pattern or a nice string of hex text. Maybe in a different base or arrangement of bits, or in 32 bit float....

But I'm thinking "Trinity" might be part of the game name. It is the kind of thing that might work.

Jason

[Adam Y.]

Originally Posted by RoboMom

Duck boats???? I used to live a block away. Copley Square sure has changed if they now have duck boats in the fountains!
There used to be a great deli that was open until the wee hours. It was called...Hey, wait a second ....

Sorry. I meant DUKW not DUCK.

[sirbobbinhood]

It sounds like a star map coordinates and they point to Ursa Major and Leo minor and it's also close to camelopardalis. Sounds kinda weird to me but you never know.

[Rafi Ahmed]

Ok well after some searching the person who made the statue was a guy named Lewis Cohen. There is another person by that name who was the mayor of the city of Adelaide, which is in the Australian state of South Australia. One of the founding fathers of Adelaide is Colonel William Light. So maybe the light is down under.