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I also vote for the legalization of Magic to complete our bots, and potions to heal their wounds. Common decency. |
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Would the amber-colored polycarbonate be used to protect a lens or stabilize light in some way, regardless of the lighting conditions presented in different venues?
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It could be used in lighting effects as it has some interesting properties when light is injected into it ... but for these effects to be seen the field lights would need to be dimmed. I think Jane is starting to ask the right questions though. From a materials property point of view, why would the GDC use a non-standard sized, molded (or bent) piece of smoked polycarbonate? What benefits (over AL or steel) would justify its use? |
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I wasn't pointing at this as to be some kind of bad habit of the team as a whole. It was always that one or two kids that were always goofing off that suggested the "Iron curtain". It made much more sense to show that person(s) Gracious Professionalism as a reason we couldn't do that kind of robot then it would be to drag out the rule book and point to a rule. We always tried to get the point of FIRST to all our team members, and that was one way we did it. You are right though, there have always been sloppy process in brainstorming/designing. I can't tell you the amount of times someone proposed an idea and the Rule Expert of the team said "We can't do that, it violates this rule", rather then everyone knowing/searching the rules. We just never changed that kind of behavior because we still got along without. @ Jamie_1930 Please stop complaining. You had the resources. Rob, Alex, Liz, and all the other mentors that gave just as much to keep the team alive were your experience that you claim 1930 lacked. You're right, we didn't have the kind of school support or money to make ourselves a top-tier FIRST team, but with the other Liz, myself and the artistic team we found ourselves with an Imagery award, which some - not all, but some - team members passed off as a joke. There was nothing wrong with 1930, its resources, it's students, it's mentors, it's school, or level of experience. We just didn't make it all the way. Other rookie teams have made off even better then us. It's not a fault in the system, it's just how things work out sometimes. As for brainstorming/designing, listen to Dave. He's actually right. EDIT: If you want to complain at me for saying this, do so in a PM, not in this thread. @ Everyone else I apologize for my derailing of this thread. Let us continue with the topic at hand. Last edited by Tetraman : 29-12-2009 at 10:56. |
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If you will note Dave's picture and the Boxcar Willie Overpass.
He may be adding to the game hint. http://www.texasescapes.com/DEPARTME...xcarWillie.htm " But my favorite part of this procedure, is the approach we take when finalizing our instructions. It's almost always concluded with, "If you get to 'such-in-such', you've gone too far." " Also: My favorite ritual in our county, though, is giving directions to visitors and guests. None of us really know the name of streets or roads, we just know that there are usually two ways to get anywhere. This may connect with the idea stated in Dave's "Morse Code": "Nothing Is As/What It Appears to Be What Is". Additionally, the pseudonym "Boxcar Willie" aka Lecil Travis Martin. Martin, who was once sitting at a railroad crossing and a fellow that closely resembled his chief boom operator, Willie Wilson, passed by sitting in a boxcar. He said, "There goes Willie." He pulled over and wrote a song entitled "Boxcar Willie". (wikipedia) We may have to pull game pieces from a track mechanism, or place them on it. Robots may be able to move the game pieces back and forth. There may be an endgame where robots will have to choose between a final position (hanging in 2004), or moving the pieces on a track to gain further points. The Lexan piece may be a divider on the track or tracks that awards points to the alliance who can adjust its position successfully. IMHO, this is fun but frivolous speculation to get us to warm up our brains for the upcoming challenge of the next six weeks. Happy New Year! Blue Moon on New Years Eve. Cool Universe indeed. |
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now look at the picture from a different perspective, what if that is a scaled model of the field! That would also make sense about the overpass post because of that giant overpass in the middle! maybe the holes that you see are scoring positions. I found that the ratio between the length and the width of the hint was ~.57. This could a representation of the field because the ratio for the field every year is .5. Just some food for thought.
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The animation allows us to visualize the game. The manual allows us to play the game legally. Know both. |
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so, we know "nothing is what it appears to be" and that the game MIGHT be abou "going green" and all that stuff. ALSO this year, teams will be getting DartFish vision software. So, the picture lets us "see" the game, but nothing is what it appears to be, so its not a picture that we got as a hint, its actually saying we CAN'T see the feild. Now the other stuff, highly reliant on the robot's vision system (yes i know we dont have enough bandwidth to do this, but with the new system, we theoretically should be able to with almost no issue)would make it difficult to see broad areas of the feild. This would be EXTREEMLY hard if there were small parts all over the feild that we had to pick up, and organize into bins of some sort.......
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that would be...
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Back to the game ‘theme’ for a second, here are a few historical anniversaries for 2010:
400 years ago: Galileo discovers Jupiter’s 4 largest moons and observes Saturn’s Rings 125 years ago: the roller coaster is patented by LaMarcus Thompson 100 years ago: Ray Bradbury is born, 1st airplane flight from the deck of a ship, New York’s Penn Station opens as world’s largest 75 years ago: the spectrometer is patented by Arthur Hardy, Amelia Earhart flies solo across the Pacific, first demonstration of RADAR by Scottsman Robert Watson-Watt 50 years ago: LASER patented by Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes, US launches first weather satellite, Navy bathyscaphe ‘Trieste’ descends to deepest point in the Pacific, Hoover Dam is completed, first Playboy club opens in Chicago 25 years ago: Coca-Cola changes the secret formula for Coke, then changes it back 3 months later |
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Not really the same formula. They wanted to change from sugar to corn syrup so this is how they kept you from tasting the difference. Cain sugar tastes better to me.
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I get a chuckle out of this whole guessing game. That's probably why I keep doing it.....
What if this is actually a KOP component this year, much like the game pieces have been in years past? 125 years ago: the roller coaster is patented by LaMarcus Thompson Train systems / light rail / mass transit is quite "green", and frankly that thing in the picture reminds me of a mass-transit elevated rail. Perhaps this will be less about the actual game pieces on that device, and more about a small electric cart with scoring locations running around on an elevated rail system ![]() |
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of course, tracks!
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