Next Year's Game?

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by Wayne TenBrink

The 2010 KOP is going to include a small laptop computer as part of the driver's station. With that and the camera, everybody could have a video link between the robot and driver. This would open the possibility of a game with some or all of the operation being out-of-sight from the drivers. Maybe capture the flag with a curtain across the middle of the field or something like that.

I don't know about everyone else, but I believe that we ended up scratching our auto-targeting this year because our camera couldn't keep up with the moving targets. I assume that any capture the flag type game would have to have a moving target for variety (i.e. the target isn't in the same spot every time, for obvious reasons)

Also, I hate to rain on a lot of parades, but games that prevent the drivers from seeing the action also block the spectators/scouts from seeing the action, which I'm sure FIRST wouldn't want to do.

I'm still sticking with my sort-different-shaped-game-pieces-into-certain-areas theory. I've been trying to fit the PC into that, but I haven't figured out a good way of doing that.

Of course, the PC might be another optional thing, like the cameras from this year. There could be some really good advantage to using it, but it's not necessary to complete the tasks.