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

[chinckley]

After reading all this information on the previous 37 pages I
am concerned about the new teams and the teams without
endless resources in mentors being able to take in and
understand all this information and making sense of it.

I hope they certainly remember this when it comes to kickoff.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by chinckley

After reading all this information on the previous 37 pages I
am concerned about the new teams and the teams without
endless resources in mentors being able to take in and
understand all this information and making sense of it.

I hope they certainly remember this when it comes to kickoff.

If that's the case, then I hope that teams come to CD for help.

[geeknerd99]

I had a weird dream about kickoff last night. The game featured these large blue and red tubes that I could fit in, about 6 feet high. They were transparent, and I guess lexan. They surrounded the field, but were on the outsides. There was also this weird framework on the field. Almost like Stack Attack.

And there was a lot with just Dave holding the IR board, talking, and closeups of the board. He never actually got around to saying what the board was for. I clearly remember that, because I kept asking myself, "WHAT'S IT FOR DAVE? WHAT'S IT FOR?"

I woke up convinced I knew exactly what the game was going to be. Then I realized it was only a dream.

[chinckley]

Originally Posted by XxMORTteam11xX

If that's the case, then I hope that teams come to CD for help.

CD???

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by chinckley

CD???

CD= Chief Delphi

[rees2001]

Ouch, this is a lot of info....

Over the past few days I stepped away from this thread & just thought. I thought about coordinates & latitude & longitude & north, south, east, west, & I watched my nephew, niece, & daughter play with their Christmas toys. I got thinking about Copley Square, & had thought. I'm done thinking about the clue until Kickoff....

What do Gerbils, Jello, Kinex, and the Greatful Dead have to do with the globe?

Stop the madness.

[alex1699]

Originally Posted by Geekzilla201

This is what I was able to get from reading 35 pages of ideas.

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Coordinates: 42.34990
-71.076072
342.242026

A and B form the coordinates of Copley Square, Boston, MA

-John Hanncock building is located in Copley Square

-Building has arena-like top

-Building has mirrored sides which, when looked at in the proper place,
allow you to see the old Hanncock buildings

-Quad Streetlights in Copley Square migt be related to the FTC game "Quad Quandry"

-Quad Streetlights = Four light sources = Four Teams on Field

-Light reflects off of Hanncock building so Reflective sides on game field

-Song Truckin' (favorite song of Woodie or Dave)
Sometimes the light's all shining on me
Other times I can barely see
Lately it occurs to me
What a long strange trip it's been

-"Barely See" could relate to Infrared Light

-Bounce Infrared Signals off of mirrors to be recieved

-Triangles and Squares in Copley Square, Globe Cafe is 342* from Copley Square

-Obelisks 342* from Copley Square could represent two game pieces

-Trinity Church (Copley Square) = 3 = Corners of Game Field (Such as the Hanncock Roof)

-December 21 (release date of clue) = National Treasure Release Date = Treasure under Trinity Church

-Paul Revere used Lights = National Treasure

-Add all three numbers=313.515859 3135~314 and 15859~159 so 314159~3.14159=pi

-Hanncock building has Red and Blue weather lights on roof

-National Treasure Connection: Reveres House is 343yds from Old North Church @ 343*

-Painter "Copley" painted a portrait of Revere

-Weather Beacons can show 4 colors (Red, RedFlash, Blue, BlueFlash)

-"For two, this seasons for you" Dave = Two Team Alliances
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Does anyone else have something I can add?

Copley+ robots= http://www.copleycontrols.com/


so i don't no if the IR sensor hooks up up to the electronics we already use but i think the clue leads use to new electronics.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by alex1699

Copley+ robots= http://www.copleycontrols.com/


so i don't no if the IR sensor hooks up up to the electronics we already use but i think the clue leads use to new electronics.

+ http://www.copleycontrols.com/motion/motors/

[Chernicki]

I think the IR board is for a quick change on your robot for autonomous mode.

[mormannoob]

Where did the water game idea come from? Its always mentioned but i never know how it got started.

[dr1008]

Originally Posted by mormannoob

Where did the water game idea come from? Its always mentioned but i never know how it got started.

all of the extra tubes from last year, and what they were going to use them for

[BornaE]

**FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2
notice the #2 here. it means something.

I believe that the IR board is a FAKE because the Blast archive have been update and #2 is there but no sign of the first one.
you can check here
http://www.usfirst.org/community/frc...t.aspx?id=6616

so i think #2 means something, maybe 2 bot alliances, or 2 light colors and 2 cameras for navigation.
this is all getting wierd.

[cgredalertcc]

well as futile as all this debating is (because we'll never know for sure until the fifth) I think that if they are in fact coordinates its got to be Copley square, because its the most cryptic and has the most potential for ideas going completely in the wrong direction. It just seems too easy to narrow things down if it is Greenland or Antarctica or whatever. Just my opinion.

[Roger]

Here is a captured shot of Google's location of 42.xxx, -71.xxx (green arrow) with degrees from North clockwise and counterclockwise. Notice how close 342.xxx CW is to the street grid. (Field checking might bring it exact.) The red rectangle is the approximate size of the 2007 game field, not placed anywhere in particular, but to give the scale of the location. The satellite photo shows something at the arrow spot. (I'm using Google because of their connection with FIRST.)

Originally Posted by dr1008

all of the extra tubes from last year, and what they were going to use them for

All the extra tubes were sold at the FIRST store and Building 19.

Outside of the "water game" joke, there could be different colored carpet indicating water which can't be crossed, etc.

I'm thinking of the six place precision of the three numbers. Could it be that the programming has to be switched from integer to -er- floating point?

Originally Posted by cgredalertcc

because we'll never know for sure until the fifth

Even with some of their hints I'm not too sure even then we'd figure them out.
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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. - Mark Twain

[geeknerd99]

Originally Posted by Chernicki

I think the IR board is for a quick change on your robot for autonomous mode.

They make switches for that nowadays.