No Way That's Gonna Happen!

[lenny8]

what about we ride the robots

[joeweber]

Robots On Ice!!!

We are actually designing a robot that will work on ice and shoot hockey pucks for demonstrations at a local professional hockey team. We want to bring it out during intermission.

Thoughts are blades instead of wheels configured like omni wheel omni bots (four motors on four corners at 45 degrees). Than pick up the pucks and shoot them at the nets.

[AlexD744]

Originally Posted by joeweber

Robots On Ice!!!

We are actually designing a robot that will work on ice and shoot hockey pucks for demonstrations at a local professional hockey team. We want to bring it out during intermission.

Thoughts are blades instead of wheels configured like omni wheel omni bots (four motors on four corners at 45 degrees). Than pick up the pucks and shoot them at the nets.

WOW! that's creepy you got the game w/ out getting the game.

[BigWhiteYeti]

Instead of building one large robot... have a full colony! FIRST can go small-scale. Instead of driving the robots individually, the humans would send commands a la Overdrive. The objective might be to, say, build the highest tower with small bricks and knock your opponents' down. Robotermites, unite!

[bobwrit]

Originally Posted by BigWhiteYeti

Instead of building one large robot... have a full colony! FIRST can go small-scale. Instead of driving the robots individually, the humans would send commands a la Overdrive. The objective might be to, say, build the highest tower with small bricks and knock your opponents' down. Robotermites, unite!

Just don't have them feel emotions.... I speak from experience...(AGRHHH they've got my leg again)

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by BigWhiteYeti

Instead of building one large robot... have a full colony! FIRST can go small-scale. Instead of driving the robots individually, the humans would send commands a la Overdrive. The objective might be to, say, build the highest tower with small bricks and knock your opponents' down. Robotermites, unite!

WOW, what a cool idea.

How about a game where the cRIO isn't allowed to move (re:Base station) but the robot is allowed to detatch smaller robots (er ... Robotermites?!?) to perform the tasks while being controlled wirelessly from the cRIOs internal network.

[ChrisH]

Originally Posted by BigWhiteYeti

Instead of building one large robot... have a full colony! FIRST can go small-scale. Instead of driving the robots individually, the humans would send commands a la Overdrive. The objective might be to, say, build the highest tower with small bricks and knock your opponents' down. Robotermites, unite!

The stacking part has already been done .... sort of. It was in 2003 and called "Stack Attack". In my not so humble opinion, it was not one of FIRST's better games. Stacking was difficult, knocking down stacks was easy, so most teams took the easy way.

[ZInventor]

i say, MUCH BIGGER (100feet square or circle, or triangle or odd shaped MINIMUM) and 10 teams on the field at time, with 2-team alliances (5 alliances per match)

plus, make the field have UNPREDICTABLE obstacles, and, since more teams are on at a time, you can run much longer matches, 10 minutes on one battery anyone? (we need to go LiIon as soon as it's cheep enough...)

i also liked the previously mentioned idea of botcams being the only visual contact (mabe more than one, or good gimbles... coupled with a mechanum, you could have the bot drive whatever way the camera faces...)

robots deploying smaller minions would also be fun... but tricky...

NON SPHERICAL GAME PIECES + Multiple different game pieces on the field...

water game's already been done by another comp, so not too much af a point to it...

also, NON FLAT SURFACE...

methinks Dave reads this thread... n the first page, someone suggested ice, this year, we got pretty close...

-Z

[notsteve]

How bout a like seriously 16 vs 16 capture the flag game! played on a football feild! that would be so epic maybe put some movable obsticles and defenses teams can lay before match. how epic would first have it with that? even throw some way to like "tag people out"

[EricH]

I'm going to go with Wayne-- I don't think FRC has had one of those in years! (If it hasn't been multipliers, it's been ref judgment calls or seemingly minor rules that have a huge effect.)

As for outside-the-box, I'll go with "house" robots that only get in the way, or that you have to score on. Preferably the latter, as the former has already been done.

[bduddy]

a game that is simple, easily scored, interesting to play and with a minimal amount of referee decisions and petty rules.....

Originally Posted by EricH

I'm going to go with Wayne-- I don't think FRC has had one of those in years! (If it hasn't been multipliers, it's been ref judgment calls or seemingly minor rules that have a huge effect.)

As for outside-the-box, I'll go with "house" robots that only get in the way, or that you have to score on. Preferably the latter, as the former has already been done.

I've got it! I've got it! We can replace the referees with...





P.S.: I know that picture is a bit big... is there any way to resize them on this forum?

[samir13k]

Forget the water and flying monkeys! lets play in a huge batch of corn!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-m1Q...eature=related

...maybe we can have our robots pick up the corn and have to turn it into ethanol in the process of playing the game. That way we can get rid of our bulky batteries, and put combustible materials on the field!
(...i'm pretty sure ethanol's combustible...not positive though)

[EricH]

Originally Posted by samir13k

Forget the water and flying monkeys! lets play in a huge batch of corn!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-m1Q...eature=related

...maybe we can have our robots pick up the corn and have to turn it into ethanol in the process of playing the game. That way we can get rid of our bulky batteries, and put combustible materials on the field!
(...i'm pretty sure ethanol's combustible...not positive though)

Been there, done that, though only about 7 - 12 teams are still around. 1992, FRC's game Maize Craze. I remember looking through the rules once, can't remember where. Might have been at the TechnoKats History Project site. The floor? Corn.

Oh, for the days of 30-page rulebooks!

[EricVanWyk]

Originally Posted by EricH

Oh, for the days of 30-page rulebooks!

Seconded.

[Daniel_LaFleur]

How about a game where the robots are not allowed to have wheels.