an unusual observation

[EricH]

Originally Posted by dbs12693x

We've had robot basketball and nascar..
'07 was kind of like "Tic-tac-toe."

Now comes...Soccer?
Maybe Scrabble?

Yes, robots moving huge tiles under time! It would use shape-recognition, at least for autonomous .

Tic-tac-toe was 2005; 2007 was Connect 4. Hmm...board game, sports game, board game, sports game... Uh-oh.

[lasereyes]

Originally Posted by EricH

Tic-tac-toe was 2005; 2007 was Connect 4. Hmm...board game, sports game, board game, sports game... Uh-oh.

Woot! New patterns are emerging!

[Lydia_1739]

Monopoly!
Checkers!
Chess!

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by EricH

Tic-tac-toe was 2005; 2007 was Connect 4. Hmm...board game, sports game, board game, sports game... Uh-oh.

Originally Posted by Lydia_1739

Monopoly!
Checkers!
Chess!

Risk! With real bombs - small, but real.

[thehurd03]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Risk! With real bombs - small, but real.

We could have water bombs!

Water Game+Board Game...
Now all we need is a fire game!
I know!

on an allience we would have one fire fighter bot, one bomb droper, and one platform bot that would have to have bombs droped on it butalso do the platform thing that we did in 07, and then for your team to get points your bot has to not be on fire at the end but it and you would also get points for being on the platform but if the other allience drops bombs on the fire fighter bot they get major penaltys and vice versa

this will never happen but atleast it would make robotics less nerdy....
we mght get some outsider fans too....h

[kamocat]

Why not go the safer route? Use the robots to play Magic the Gathering. (with giant cards, of course). Autonomous would be building cards into the deck.

[IKE]

Battleship. Sort of a water game. Sort of a board game. Actually that would probably suck as a spectator competition unless it was the Deluxe Talking Battleship.

[kamocat]

At this rate we could just play marbles.

But no, I still like that stuff involving tones and intervals. I suppose we could have something where the robots move around the area, find the data ports in the walls (each which has a few kilobytes of memory to store a waveform), and try to assemble a wave sequence to unlock some sort of code. Or they could be given sheet music which they must read and play (and then post in the .abc format. bonus points for making up lyrics to go along with it)

This is only the 80th post, and it's already way past feasible. What was I saying about making FIRST actually consider the ideas in this thread? This stuff might be usable in ten years or so.

How about really fun and funky stuff, like ferrofluid, non-newtonian fluid, or jello?

(and now for my 4th edit)
What about different sized balls, so each makes a "boing" of a different pitch? Some could even be filled with different liquids or gasses (helium in one, nitrogen in another, argon or xenon in a third)

[EricH]

Originally Posted by kamocat

How about really fun and funky stuff, like ferrofluid, non-newtonian fluid, or jello?

Not the JELLO GAME again! (Dave's other favorite game, second only to water, Mars, or Krispy Kremes...)

[kamocat]

Originally Posted by EricH

Not the JELLO GAME again! (Dave's other favorite game, second only to water, Mars, or Krispy Kremes...)

The only reason I mentioned jello is because I had an awesome idea a while back of embedding iron shavings in jello. Now that I know of ferrofluid, it's a little moot, but still fun.
How about a textured jelly? Something along the lines of clay or play-do for robots.
Another option is to have (almost) fully elastic balls, that increase in "hardness" as they near the core. This would create a nice splat-bounce effect. (if you put a skin on it, you could do it with cubes too)

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by EricH

Not the JELLO GAME again! (Dave's other favorite game, second only to water, Mars, or Krispy Kremes...)

The Office quote:

ALRIGHT, WHO stuck my robot in JELLO?!?! JIM???

[kamocat]

Honestly, what worries me most is that they'll choose a gamepiece that will obstruct the cameras. Anything else is just in good fun.

[sayso_411]

Idk...I think FIRST is going to try something simple yet difficult because of the new controller and hard economic times; after all they have got to watch their costs too!

[smartkid]

Originally Posted by kamocat

Why not go the safer route? Use the robots to play Magic the Gathering. (with giant cards, of course). Autonomous would be building cards into the deck.

And then my white sliver deck starts confusing the refs. because of all the chain abilities!

[MishraArtificer]

Originally Posted by smartkid

And then my white sliver deck starts confusing the refs. because of all the chain abilities!

...and what would happen to my Artifact deck? I think the judges would have to ban the Affinity mechanic!