New Game Progress

[DarkFlame145]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

2. About Dave's fish, I have hypothesis about that. it could be that he's just trying to get the hype up about the feared water game or that the field this year will be "bumpy". The fish has scales and is generally bumpy. Expect terrain this year.

I agree that it could be Dave playing some sort of a mind game with us. I wouldn't be surprised. We still love you though Dave, keep em clues coming.

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by DarkFlame145

it could be Dave playing some sort of a mind game with us.

Could be?! Try 'most definitely is'. I've learned to stop listening to Dave between April and January. It makes my life a whole lot less stressful.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Libby K

Could be?! Try 'most definitely is'. I've learned to stop listening to Dave between April and January. It makes my life a whole lot less stressful.

I don't go quite that far, I listen to dave and then assume anything that contains the words 'game', 'hint', 'water', or 'jello' are jokes. Other times mr. Lavery can be quite funny and informative. Plus, it is nice to read posts that are usually free from grammatical and spelling errors. (I cant say always, I haven't read all of his posts)

And about the frozen fish, try keeping fish frozen in Hawaii, or Brazil. Yeah though, frozen fish would work GREAT in Michigan, just open the window a crack.

Im still holding out for construction barrels, just cuz I want to see robots do what I want to do whenever I see them.

[gorrilla]

whats a construction barrel? is that like a 55 gallon drum

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by gorrilla

whats a construction barrel? is that like a 55 gallon drum

[Branden Ghena]

Construction Barrels aka Michigan's State Tree

[gorrilla]

Originally Posted by Wetzel

oh i call those stationary targets

[Sunbun]

You know, if a water game's out of the question...

...what about Robo-Quidditch?

[ttldomination]

Robot Quidditch and water game is now out of the question. .

It's just that.

1. It's hard enough to make regular robots, much less a flying robot. .

2. Assuming ur on the ground, the whole passing aspect of the game is totally wack. One robot would hold the ball the entire time.

[AustinSchuh]

It would be a bit tough if your robot was disabled 10 feet off the ground...

[Andrew141WOBOT]

i always epicly fail when guessing the game. also, i just wanted the 141st post

[DarkFlame145]

Originally Posted by Andrew141WOBOT

i always epicly fail when guessing the game. also, i just wanted the 141st post

Sorry dude someone beat ya, you where 142

[IKE]

Originally Posted by Sunbun

You know, if a water game's out of the question...

...what about Robo-Quidditch?

I should have read this before before last nights design challenge. Thought we better teach the kids about buoyancy.

These are boats made of modeling clay and then loaded until they sink with BBs.

[ebarker]

Somewhere in North America a water game is being examined.....





more information might be found here: a lot more photos

[T3H_K3YM45T3R]

I think that we will have to cut down a tree with a herring...

you get terrain in a forest, and there are trees in forests. trees are generally cylindrical shaped.

there are streams and creeks that run through forests, streams and creeks have fish in them...and water, trees need water

so that means that we could have like 55gallon drums full of water stacked on top of each other in some sort of random order and the two alliances will have to separate them and stack them in the correct order, all while trying to keep from knocking them over on other robots and trying not to bust them as to spill water. then have to move the stacked barrels to certain locations on the playing field as marked by blue circles in the playing field carpet.
bonus points could then be awarded during the autonomous period for correctly moving to a stack of barrels with a certain shape on the bottom barrel such as a square, circle, or triangle...or a picture of a shrubbery

then again this could idea could be formulated from Monty Python and the Holy Grail and be completely wrong...but it's worth a shot